The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields

Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by kuschku on Sunday June 26, 2016 @09:28AM (#11980669)

And that’s why I host all my email myself, and have my VPS with no password login (only key auth), and have 2FA enabled for the VPS control panel at the hoster, and have 2FA enabled for any change to the domain requiring a letter to be sent to me.

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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by Tepix on Sunday June 26, 2016 @10:53AM (#11981036)

You should use a dedicated server instead of a VPS if you're concerned about privacy.

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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by callalex on Sunday June 26, 2016 @04:59PM (#11982694)

Please let this meme die. There are very few people left in the world that truly believe that hypervisors are leaking your pii all the time.

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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by Tepix on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:26AM (#12049131)

There are many different types of virtualization. Most of them use disk images, meaning someone can read (or even write to) your disk without you noticing.

Some of them are lightweight virtualizations where a priviledged outside user can run processes inside the VM without requiring authorization or without being logged.

How is this a meme that needs to die?

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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by kuschku on Sunday June 26, 2016 @04:30PM (#11982539)

With a dedicated server I’d have more privacy, indeed, but already with a VPS with encrypted data that requires me to decrypt manually by entering a password upon restart via ssh to start the actual email service I gain a lot of privacy.

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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by Tepix on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:26AM (#12049133)

What type of virtualization is it? OpenVZ?

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