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Two billion email addresses were exposed

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Re: Two billion email addresses were exposed

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On the plus side, Troy can save a lot of DB space now. Instead of storing which emails have been compromised at this point he can replace that with just def email_compromised(email): return True

Not necessarily. Both my main addresses still come back clean after years in use. The one I use for random crap has 9 hits though.

Same here

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Now that I'm not only using a Macbook and iPhone, I've been looking for cross-platform solutions. For a week I've been using KeePassXC + Syncthing between four devices. Syncthing is also syncing my Obsidian vaults which has replaced Apple-only Notes.app. Bitwarden is definitely more polished, and Syncthing is definitely (much) more fiddly than using Bitwarden's and Obsidian's ($5/mo) native syncing tools. But I like…

If you have a nas, I highly recommend you set up a VPN back to your network. It's been a bit of a game changer for me. I don't fiddle around with Dropbox or gdrive anymore, it's just on my nas and it just works. I was even mounting /home from it but that was a bit of overkill and still caused some hassles when I was completely offline- like on an airplane. Vpn has other advantages as well like no longer really having…

> I was even mounting /home from it but that was a bit of overkill and still caused some hassles when I was completely offline- like on an airplane.

I solved this by having /home for desktops/workstations on my NAS, but laptops had their own /home (with the NAS /home mounted somewhere locally). It’s not perfect but was way easier than dealing with the offline case.

Re: Two billion email addresses were exposed

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Bitwarden supports TOTP too, even though it's not entirely obvious from the UI.

TOTP inside a password manager doesn't make much sense to me. What's the point of two factor auth if both factors are stored together?

My Bitwarden account is protected with YubiKey as the 2FA. I then store every other TOTP in Bitwarden right next to the password.

I get amazing convince with this setup, and it’s still technically two factor. To get into my Bitwarden account you need to know both my Bitwarden password and have my yubikey. If you can get into my Bitwarden, then I am owned. But for most of us who are not say, being specifically targeted by state agents, this setup provides good protection with very good user experience.

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Now that I'm not only using a Macbook and iPhone, I've been looking for cross-platform solutions. For a week I've been using KeePassXC + Syncthing between four devices. Syncthing is also syncing my Obsidian vaults which has replaced Apple-only Notes.app. Bitwarden is definitely more polished, and Syncthing is definitely (much) more fiddly than using Bitwarden's and Obsidian's ($5/mo) native syncing tools. But I like…

I have used this setup for 6 years or so with KeePassXC and it's fine. Just being mindful of not editing stuff on other devices before the first one has had the chance to sync has been enough to avoid pretty much all sync conflicts. I have only had to resolve those a few times so far, iirc my android client was misconfigured at the time or something. I still recommend Bitwarden for password management for any "laypeo…

Even when you do get a sync conflict, Syncthing will rename one of the copies and then you can have KeePassXC merge the two files back into one. So that's still pretty much hassle-free.

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Now that I'm not only using a Macbook and iPhone, I've been looking for cross-platform solutions. For a week I've been using KeePassXC + Syncthing between four devices. Syncthing is also syncing my Obsidian vaults which has replaced Apple-only Notes.app. Bitwarden is definitely more polished, and Syncthing is definitely (much) more fiddly than using Bitwarden's and Obsidian's ($5/mo) native syncing tools. But I like…

If you have a nas, I highly recommend you set up a VPN back to your network. It's been a bit of a game changer for me. I don't fiddle around with Dropbox or gdrive anymore, it's just on my nas and it just works. I was even mounting /home from it but that was a bit of overkill and still caused some hassles when I was completely offline- like on an airplane. Vpn has other advantages as well like no longer really having…

Yes, I'm using Tailscale, and you're basically always on your home network. Very convenient.

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> there does not seem to be any way for _me_, the person affected, to know what password were breached You should be using a unique randomly-generated password for each website. That way, one breach doesn't lead to multiple accounts getting hijacked AND you'll know which passwords were breached solely based on the website list. The only passwords I still keep in my head are: 1. The password to my password manager 2.…

Yes! Me too. Not adding anything here except a confirmation on the above approach. You kind of need your email password as a "break glass" scenario. But mostly, you just need your password manager.

and root disk encryption, unless you have some alternative method set up.

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+1 for Bitwarden. It is literally the best solution out there. Been getting to increase uptake in personal circles with (very) limited success. The wife keeps trying to convince me that the ship has sailed in trying to protect info online. She's probably right.

Can anyone with experience with 1Password and Bitwarden share their opinions on each. I've been on 1Password for years and am wondering if I'm missing anything.

I might be that guy soon. I really don't like Bitwarden's extensions, they have clunky UX, are slow and often don't even respect my settings. Autofill is a crapshoot, especially on Android. And they have performance issues with the Firefox and Chrome(-based) extensions so it's not even platform specific.

Re: Two billion email addresses were exposed

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There have been enough data breaches at this point that I'm sure all my info has been exposed multiple times (addresses, SSN, telephone number, email, etc). My email is in over a dozen breaches listed on the been pwned site. I've gotten legal letters about breaches from colleges I applied to, job boards I used, and other places that definitely have a good amount of my past personal information. And that's not even co…

Exactly this.

Does anyone still care?

I like how the Apple Password app informs you about Compromised Passwords so you can you know... go in and fix it, get a new password etc.

Nice little cute idea.

I got 717 warnings. Seven hundred seven teen.

No I will never be able to fix this

Re: Two billion email addresses were exposed

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I used per-account email with alias services and password managers. Also started migrating old accounts in free time. Now its pretty easy to tell the source of leak by email addresses as well as sources of spam. --- Per-account alias might sound much, but using sieve filtering [1] is amazing, and you can get a comprehensive filtering solution going with 'envelope to' (the actual address receiving the email) + 'header…

I just use + @gmail.com At the end of day day it’s all delivered to myname@gmail.com mailbox, but I can use filters based on part after “+”.

As someone who deals in breach data this is a simple regex to strip out.
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