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LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ Is Strong Password

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Re: LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ Is Strong Password

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Post by danparsonson »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #57
danparsonson wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Serious question - I've never used 1Password - what happens if you only ever use one device and that device becomes permanently unavailable for some reason (stolen, destroyed, etc)?

As part of the setup process 1Password has you print out an "Emergency Kit" that contains your secret key, https://support.1password.com/secret-key-security/ . But you are absolutely correct, if you lose your device and the Emergency Kit you're SOL. It reality, though, that is mitigated by the fact that: 1. I think it's probably pretty rare to install 1P on only a single device, as the biggest benefit of any hosted p…

Thanks!

Re: LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ Is Strong Password

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

hodler5 wrote: post #50
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #4

>>> KrebsOnSecurity last month interviewed a victim who recently saw more than three million dollars worth of cryptocurrency siphoned from his account. That user signed up with LastPass nearly a decade ago, stored their cryptocurrency seed phrase there, and yet never changed his master password — which was just eight characters. Nor was he ever forced to improve his master password. This does fascinate me. How many p…

I still hold ~1M US worth of crypto all together, which is roughly the majority of my net worth. Been in since early days. If I'd guess I've probably "realized" (sold/used for payment for non-crypto goods or services) ~20~30k$ or so over the years? I still donate here and there and use it for payment for goods and services when I can. I probably lost at least another ~1M$ worth (not projected: at the time. it sucks b…

Thanks. It's interesting to hear.

couple of points

1. You said fear of taxes - have you spoken to an accountant? I understand it's capital gains.

2. What's your view on why the price went up and stays up-ish? Speculation? Funnel for money laundering?

3. What's "believing"? If central banks all published their own coins does that solve the problem of native digital cash? or is this money without fiat type of thing (I am sorry for strange questions - I am sure there are places to dig this up online but it's only what I can glean from around)

Re: LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ Is Strong Password

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Post by kawfey »

kstrauser wrote: post #29
ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm too lazy to change.

Take the 10 minutes to migrate to Bitwarden or 1Password or such and be done with it.

it takes a bit more than 10 minutes to convince my family to also migrate their passwords and re-figure out how to use it when all their life they used the same password for everything.

Re: LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ Is Strong Password

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Post by hodler5 »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #72
hodler5 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still hold ~1M US worth of crypto all together, which is roughly the majority of my net worth. Been in since early days. If I'd guess I've probably "realized" (sold/used for payment for non-crypto goods or services) ~20~30k$ or so over the years? I still donate here and there and use it for payment for goods and services when I can. I probably lost at least another ~1M$ worth (not projected: at the time. it sucks b…

Thanks. It's interesting to hear. couple of points 1. You said fear of taxes - have you spoken to an accountant? I understand it's capital gains. 2. What's your view on why the price went up and stays up-ish? Speculation? Funnel for money laundering? 3. What's "believing"? If central banks all published their own coins does that solve the problem of native digital cash? or is this money without fiat type of thing (I…

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Re: LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ Is Strong Password

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Post by Doxin »

codetrotter wrote: post #8
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #4

>>> KrebsOnSecurity last month interviewed a victim who recently saw more than three million dollars worth of cryptocurrency siphoned from his account. That user signed up with LastPass nearly a decade ago, stored their cryptocurrency seed phrase there, and yet never changed his master password — which was just eight characters. Nor was he ever forced to improve his master password. This does fascinate me. How many p…

The more early someone was in mining or buying Bitcoin, the greater the possibility that they believe in Bitcoin in and of itself. I.e. to someone who was early into Bitcoin, they might wish to never sell off all of their BTC. And besides, even if you wanted to sell off your Bitcoins, there are a number of things to consider: - Taxes. Why sell millions of USD worth of Bitcoin now, and pay taxes on all of it today? Po…

> The more early someone was in mining or buying Bitcoin, the greater the possibility that they believe in Bitcoin in and of itself.

Citation needed. I got into bitcoin back when mining on your CPU was actually a reasonable thing to do. I tried selling it when it was worth about $50, only for mtgox to promptly fold.

Suffice to say I firmly believe bitcoin isn't really a solution to anything.

Of course anecdote does not data make, but neither does an unsourced claim.

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