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    Comment #41354989

    While these seems to be secure... tampering with default settings always cause PITA; especially during automated upgrades. In addition, ssh port changes are all security thru obscu…

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    Comment #31369342

    +1 for Canary!

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    Comment #31306818

    Pretty sure EU and US will not diverge so much like Russia did. Russia is also tiny market (both population, GINI, internet penetration). See EU-US Privacy Shield - courts may say …

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    Comment #31306751

    I therefore have one for facebook, slack and so on (i.e) for every major company when I login. Then one is for just browsing.

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    Comment #31306731

    Yes, I just tested it with one my accounts that has NO recovery email address/phone. ONLY U2F key. Select forgot password; the it asks Insert U2F Key. Then recovered. Yes, it may b…

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    Comment #31306712

    Lets be honest - not having cards working for a day is not the same as earthquake. Sure people will miss trains/rent etc. 1 or 2 business may go under but for 90 % people all will …

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    Comment #31306682

    That is what it means by encrypted data storage. Only the user has access. If they managed to see/recover your files then it is not encrypted. (at the end, people will complain at …

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    Comment #31303738

    Get an account with iCloud and forward all mails as backup to iCloud

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    Comment #31303733

    Assuming they have cryptography all data is lost.

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    Comment #31303595

    You are correct but it is one in year or decade. Right... rest of the time all is good. people will opt for convenience.

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    Comment #31303582

    But as one can imagine people (99% are on Windows) do it in haste...

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    Comment #31303493

    From: https://ente.io/privacy#account-data > Data security is very important to ente, whether that is your personal information or any other data. That is why we publish our client…

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    Comment #31303452

    2. Instead of that use separate firefox profiles - one exclusively of Gmail. Another for casual browsing. If you clear cookies all the time then it seems like you are logging in so…

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    Comment #31303443

    Many providers do it... sadly

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    Comment #31303351

    > Because I've been warned by security conscious people never to use phone number Sadly you read only one part of the warning from security conscious people. The main part is to ge…

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    Comment #31303117

    > presumed that the security message was because of new IP addresses that must have been assigned. While I was initially able to log in to my accounts after replacing both the rout…

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    Comment #31298161

    What is the obsession of tech companies to the word "One". Everything is these days One. Google One One Drive Apple One

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    Comment #31295456

    Really a lot. I recently installed CloudReady (equivalent of ChromeOS Flex) on a 8th Gen Dell latitude. From Gimp to running 3 different chrome browsers with different profiles. Al…

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    Comment #31292934

    While I sincerely appreciate the user, I often find we in Linux/OSS/FOSS are complicating our lives. Anyone wanting decent batterylife please get some JasperLake or GeminiLake refr…