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Besides “your password must contain this” complexity requirements, some places also have “your password must not contain this” rules, sometimes with fairly short substrings of the username, a day of the week,… being enough for a password t… Continue reading Password restrictions limit Diceware word list – (when) can this get bad enough one should choose another strategy?
In Denmark, the current digital identification/authentication solution for pretty much any online contact with the municipality, state, etc. is being switched over to a setup consisting of the following steps:
You enter your username on … Continue reading Does the new Danish authentication solution for online contact with municipality etc. genuinely use 2FA?
My ISP’s security strikes me as… somewhat alarming to my admittedly non-expert eyes. They store wifi passwords in plaintext on their website and allow changing it there – this is apparently meant to be the only way to change password/net… Continue reading How to handle a router from an apparently security-indifferent ISP with no possibility to switch?