Re:My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero
by BatteryMountain on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:47AM
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I do now, I have hundreds of logins stored as of today.. but back then, password managers were not as user friendly as they are today, and the ones that were, did not have sync/online storage, thus I have no credentials stored for paypal. I think my credentail store has items from about 2015 and newer. I remember those days where I had a text file with passwords that I would then encrypt as a zip file with the strongest encryption that the zip tool allowed.
On principle I will not ever supply Security Questions with real answers, they are rubbish. Most of them you have to answer exactly correctly (spelling/casing), so you are biased to use simple one word answers that any of you family members or close friends can guess.
I prefer 2FA, but back then offline 2FA wasn't that big of a thing and most sites only supported 2FA via an sms otp, if they even supported it (aka justified the financial costs).
> Another thing they offered was for me to fill out the answers to the security questions, but I absolutely hate these and always fill in random characters by mashing my keyboard, so no go here.
This should go as a cautionary tale to always use a password manager. I, too, hate insecurity questions. But instead of mashing keys, I generate unique passwords for them and use the question as a username. Then save them in there as well.