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This is a close matchup for If someone knows your wifi password can they hack your router?
I gave someone my general (not the guest-specific) wifi password, but they flew home to another continent. My partner is concerned about whether th… Continue reading If someone knows your wifi password AND is out of wifi range, does it present any particular risks?
Yes, I do use a password manager. Yes, I do use complicated long passwords, a la XKCD.
However, sometimes I fail repeatedly when entering the master password to my password manager. Which has no "show" button, presumably due to… Continue reading What are the risks of typing a password in a terminal, just to see before pasting it?
I just had a warning from Vivaldi 5 that Vivaldi’s profile might have been under a git repo, which could be a security risk exposing passwords and the like and that they had added a .gitignore to mitigate the risk.
• [Privacy] Add .gitign… Continue reading Risks / best practices in putting your `~`/user home under git to track configuration files only in that directory, not subdirectories?
So, yesterday I needed to sign & scan some forms for my bank, a credit union. Nothing hugely confidential, except it has some account numbers on it. But still, I was a bit concerned, so the exchange, with my fairly senior advisor, wh… Continue reading Is this "secure email" mechanism my bank wants me to use best practice?
I ran across this on namecheap.com. This question isn’t about namecheap.com itself, which I have no problem trusting. Rather, what approach do you recommend in dealing with CDN scripts that have very long random names? Now, I know they’… Continue reading using NoScript – what approach to use with randomnly named CDN scripts?