Elias Griffin

10/10 and notice all the nitpicking of one irrelevant detail. That’s a credibility attack. The main thrust of the argument is 100%. It was just something personal that stuck out to the author. If that related Signal experience isn’t true there are thousands more that are.

10/10 especially for the physical security mention. So-called Cybersecurity “Wisdom” will tell you that physical access means game over and that YOU DO NOT NEED TO PROTECT AGAINST IT. It’s a cohencidence that that group that tells that lie benefits the most from the telling of it.

I just happened upon this thread and security of all types is my specialty so I just wanted to say that nothing here is personal. I’m trying to be helpful giving folks “actual security” as in not “better than putting passwords in plain text files”. Lazy idiots will be lazy idiots with Keepass as well. I can’t tell you how many stories I’ve heard from colleagues that those people aforementioned just put the main Keepass password in a plain text file.

I upvoted the OP and your reply for bringing TM novelty and awareness.

I do see what you’re going for, but the mitigations you wrote can be found everywhere on the Internet for over a decade. It’s average commodity information combined with that fact that we are not more secure these days, but less secure in 2024 that ever.

In the case of password databases, this is de facto less secure than paper and pencil, which is not extreme by any measure and actually takes little effort.

Quadhelion Engineering Corrected Mitigation Strategies:

• Never use an electronic password manager, use index cards and an art quality graphite pencil instead
• The loss, hack, crack, or malfunction of a MFA device can be absolutely devastating. Use with caution and sync three of them, 1 of them kept in a firesafe at all times
• Never regurlarly update all software and devices, choose your updates and choose your timing depending on your environment and posture instead
• Never be reliant upon an electronic home security system and lock devices (if they get that far, major damage has occured), use a Rottwieller, Great Dane, Mastiff, German Shepard, or Akita (never Pitbulls or Dobermans) alongside yourself with non-lethal weapons until lethal force is used upon you, instead

You asked and the Non-lethal (Less-Lethal) Weapons Industry has delivered. Pepper ball guns, Radically Improved Tasers, Electrical Stun Devices, Batons, Kubatons, Pellet Guns, ColdSteel Brooklyn Smasher, Slings, and also you may not think unless you played, Paintball Guns, big nasty bruises at medium range if only wearing a T-Shirt.

• Women hide thier skin, lips, and age
• Men hide thier jawline with beards and their insecurities are buried so well, they forget it themselves as a defense mechanism hoping the mental/emotional weakness will “heal” by next confrontation
• Humans hide thier weakness,
• Thier competitive business plans
• Patents until they are published
• Who are you falling in love with at the start
• Exactly how much you are attracted to a person
• Who you have a crush on
• Your answer to a $10,000 competition
• Your lottery ticket
• The location of your gold and gun
• The location of your child when allowed online
• Whether someone is away from home for extended periods of time, you leave the lights and TV on.
• Inventions until it’s marketed
• Science Fair Project until it’s unvieled
• Presents until they are opened
• Your private parts
• Your private thoughts on your marriage

Have you ever grabbed a childs private parts? NO of course not, because you INNATELY UNDERSTAND even though you are not a parent and don’t remember being one yourself. In fact you understand it so well that if you were to do so publcally, you’re putting your life at risk.

CONCLUSION: Privacy is natural and helps give confidence and security to an individual but they want access to your weaknesses and privates anyway.

EVIDENCE: Privacy Violation is a specific tactic meant to break people …IN PRISON…since they begining of time, Gulags.

P.S. Stop showing nude baby pictures at reunions to those that did not raise or grow up with the child in the family who already saw them naked, and only while they are still a child and not a teenager, otherwise that is a serious privacy violation. In fact, just don’t take the picture, where did you even get that you lazy lubricated louse.

Very interesting tip, preciate that.

@PassGAN

Instead of relying on manual password analysis, PassGAN uses a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to autonomously learn the distribution of real passwords from actual password leaks, and to generate high-quality password guesses. Our experiments show that this approach is very promising.

Posteo

The name sounds akin to “mass gaslighting”?

What a superb list! Saved.

I was thinking of writing a guide on how to lead a digitally private and secure “life” since so many bad guides are out there.

I’d like to add that the best private and secure Operating Systems are:

• BSD
• HardenedBSD
• Commercial UNIX (HP-UX, AIX, IRIX)
• Void & Alpine Linux
• Indie Operating Systems

Private Search Engines

• Searx
• Searx.envs.net

Private Browsers

• Lynx
• Librewolf
• Waterfox
• Qutebrowser
• Hardened Firefox (at my repo)

Qubues runs containers yes, but the unique use of a paravirtualized Fedora Linux kernel itself leaves open lots of unique security holes and is therefore extremely hard reviewing the security of it yourself.

GrapheneOS is constantly being showboated by Ed Snowden which is a red flag and I did experience app contamination on it. I would also suggest PostmarketOS. Definite no on CalyxOS.

I’d like to throw in my own Free Open Source, git clone, security repositories for BSD and Firefox available on Bitbucket, Github, and my own self-hosted git server with the latest files. All my software is currently written in Python (my very first Python scripts!) and short so it’s very easy to review.