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I'm experiencing a sense of schadenfruede because I'm embittered by Quora's arrogant "real names" policy. They won't "let me" contribute. Nothing insightful. I'm just here to kick them while they're down.
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I use privacy.com and Lastpass to help with this problem. Any time there is a service I have to have a business relationship with that I don't trust to keep my info secure, I use a unique password and a unique credit card number with a tight limit. What's nice is that they tie the card to a single vendor too. For example, the water company. I know the water bill is usually $50 or less, so I set the limit to $60/mo. A…
What bank/card allows you to create unique credit cards with separate limits? The one I was using (Swedbank/visa/mastercard) stopped providing this service last year.
Privacy is a game changer for online transaction security imo. An additional benefit is the ability to subscribe to "try free for a month but oh wait we need your credit card info first so when you forget to cancel we'll keep charging you". Simply create a virtual card with single time spend limit $1 less than the monthly subscription charge, and you can rest assured that your one month trial is a one month trial.
Several friends and I had our Steam passwords stollen. Lesson I learned was not to have same password to more than one service because gmail account was hijacked too. The perpetrator stopped at changing gmail language to Polish, thank God. But, damage he/she could have done was much greater. It was before "login attempt from unknown location" messages. It was a drag to bring all back but we did it. The lesson also is…
This is why I hate companies that force you to sign up to gain access to content. I do not want that relationship. Sooner or later those systems will be legacy and then maintaining them will be a pain. Bitrot will set in and sooner or later there will be a breach. One new development is that you used to be able to get your invoices mailed via snail mail. Then that disappeared and you got your invoices mailed via emai…
I use privacy.com and Lastpass to help with this problem. Any time there is a service I have to have a business relationship with that I don't trust to keep my info secure, I use a unique password and a unique credit card number with a tight limit. What's nice is that they tie the card to a single vendor too. For example, the water company. I know the water bill is usually $50 or less, so I set the limit to $60/mo. A…
This is why I hate companies that force you to sign up to gain access to content. I do not want that relationship. Sooner or later those systems will be legacy and then maintaining them will be a pain. Bitrot will set in and sooner or later there will be a breach. One new development is that you used to be able to get your invoices mailed via snail mail. Then that disappeared and you got your invoices mailed via emai…
Does this mean that every question or answer I’ve viewed is now in the hands of the attacker?
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Luckily your bank and your health provider probably have decent security, because those two industries face extra heavy fines for breaches.
Yes, heavily regulated banks and medical providers have wonderful security. You can see that they do whenever they require punctuation (but not spaces or $) in the password, and demand an 8 character password (but reject anything over 16 or 24 characters). /sarcasm I especially like financial companies that have you login by using symantec VIP[1] which you append to your password. There's no way anyone thought that w…
https://www.cyrozap.com/2014/09/29/reversing-the-symantec-vi...
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I use privacy.com and Lastpass to help with this problem. Any time there is a service I have to have a business relationship with that I don't trust to keep my info secure, I use a unique password and a unique credit card number with a tight limit. What's nice is that they tie the card to a single vendor too. For example, the water company. I know the water bill is usually $50 or less, so I set the limit to $60/mo. A…
What bank/card allows you to create unique credit cards with separate limits? The one I was using (Swedbank/visa/mastercard) stopped providing this service last year.
With the premium cards on top of other perks there’s also Disposable Cards which creates a virtual card for every transaction you want and as soon as that card gets used, it’ll destroy it and create one brand new.
For separating limits you can create multiple virtual cards each with limits once met will freeze the card.
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I use privacy.com and Lastpass to help with this problem. Any time there is a service I have to have a business relationship with that I don't trust to keep my info secure, I use a unique password and a unique credit card number with a tight limit. What's nice is that they tie the card to a single vendor too. For example, the water company. I know the water bill is usually $50 or less, so I set the limit to $60/mo. A…
I use keepassx, a local password manager. I don't trust centralized online password managers with browser extensions. Huge attack surface. I copy and paste usernames and passwords.
I can't trust a website to keep all my passwords.
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I use privacy.com and Lastpass to help with this problem. Any time there is a service I have to have a business relationship with that I don't trust to keep my info secure, I use a unique password and a unique credit card number with a tight limit. What's nice is that they tie the card to a single vendor too. For example, the water company. I know the water bill is usually $50 or less, so I set the limit to $60/mo. A…
I can’t trust privacy.com. I refuse to give some company direct access to pull money from my bank. Only a matter of time until they’re breached too.
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LastPass is not helping you with privacy here. From their tos tos: > You may use our Services only as permitted in these Terms, and you consent to our Privacy Policy at https://www.logmeininc.com/legal/privacy , which is incorporated by reference. pp: > When you use our Services, we receive information generated through the use of the Service, either entered by you or others who use the Services with you (for example…
I haven't even tried to use these services, can someone please explain why centralizing all your online activity helps with privacy?