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Re:Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to ... by jjav on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @02:31AM (#33965869)
> Am I worried about getting hacked? Absolutely!

If you set a strong, long, unique password for every account, your chances of getting the account compromised are just about zero.

2FA is a good thing in most cases, but I do hate how the industry has blindly adopted it as some sort of mantra that you can't exist without. The reality is that if you chose 128+ bit passwords generated out of /dev/random, they cannot be brute-forced within the lifetime of the universe. You might get phished, which is entirely different, but if you're careful about that you'll do fine without 2FA.

Re:Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to ... by _morgs_ on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @03:11AM (#33966082)
How will you avoid fake login pages? Those can even phish SMS and TOTP 2FA.

Yubikey 2FA (and equivalents) help to solve this.

Re:Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to ... by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @09:39PM (#33979362)
Bitwarden will show if I'm not on the right domain. It's not perfect, but a USB key is a nonstarter for me (going back to "I'm more worried about locking myself out than someone else getting in.")
Re:Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to ... by themagician on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @02:34AM (#33965900)
Companies leak passwords constantly.
Re:Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to ... by mewpmewp2 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @10:57AM (#33970565)
Where do you store those passwords?