I went in to delete mine. Was forced to put in my real name and current employer without any way to opt out. So for a short brilliant moment I was Bobo Bobolicious of Bob’s Boat Oars
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So the platform that allows anonymous signup but requires submission of information about your employer or salary to access anything but the very basics is determined to dox you.
Fuckin’ genius.
Just submit fake shit.
I kid, don’t use the website.
I don’t know if I have an account, but this is a good reminder to go through and review all of my accounts (everything’s in my password manager). I have way too many, so I could probably trim them.
Thanks for the reminder!
1 device: Keepass
2 or more devices Keepass + Syncthing
2 or more devices & extremely easy for new users: Bitwarden.
That works too. I have 4 devices (laptop, desktop, work computer, phone), and sometimes need to login on a device that’s not mine. I use Syncthing for other things, but Bitwarden has some nice features (e.g. organization to share passwords with my wife), so I stick with it.
Its a long journey, but totally worth it. When I chose to go fully self-hosted, I had around 1,200 accounts and passwords. First I used a temporary fake emailnsite to change my email and all the personal data I could from all the sites I wanted out of my life, then closed each account. Did a checkout wherever I could too. Then went into each account I wanted to keep where I was using a gmail address, changed my email to an alias (proton mail) and created a new random password for each (Bitwarden self-hosted). I’m down to about 100 accounts, including everything in my 2 jobs. The level of freedom I feel is unspeakable.
I thought I was bad with ~300 logins… I’m going to follow in your footsteps, teach me your ways sensei. :)
https://temp-mail.org/en/ That site, bitwarden (self-hosted preferably, but an account with them works too), and you’ve got all the tools you’ll ever want. If you also want to “change” your phone number on the sites you’re leaving (that’s always a good idea as well), you can try https://quackr.io/ but I’m not sure how good it is. I just found that site, and honestly can’t remember what I used for that. All I remember is that it was a free trial of an app for 7 days, and I made sure to finish that before the trial was over. And I’m no sensei, call me Master “4th run of Horizon Zero Dawn” 🤣🤣. Just kidding, I’m just a guy that, like most of is, got tired of all the BS out there these days. I am, though, on my 4th run of that game. Good luck man, you won’t regret doing this.
What’s a good multiplatform password manager these days? I’ve been meaning to move away from LastPass for forever (and update my passwords in the process), I just haven’t found the time to sort through all of that.
I really like BitWarden. Benefits:
- open source - can even host your own storage server if you want (e.g. vaultwarden)
- security audited
- free - has paid tiers, but you probably don’t need them
- apps - Desktop (Linux, Windows, macOS), browser extension (basically all of them?), mobile, command-line, web app
It has some neat features and hasn’t annoyed me too much yet.
Also nearly complete rolling out Keypass/Webauthn compatibility!
Perfect, thank you!
I just moved from Dashlane it was painless
Bit warden
I’ll have a look, thanks
KeePassXC
Say what you want about old timers but [ Notebook and Pencil ] has a 100% success rate if the attacker doesn’t have physical access.
Actually, that would make it easier to fall for a phishing page. My browser extension will only offer to fill example.com. If I’m on exarnple.com, it won’t. This makes me say “hmm, why no match for this page? ah! the domain is different”. With a notebook, I’d happily type the password in just the same.
PEBKAC isn’t really an argument greater than a Strawman. If you’re saying operators can’t be trusted to be competent you might as well argue that these people shouldn’t own computers or cellphones, or kitchen knifes or other things that require a minimum competence.
Sure, but that’s where the cross platform comes in, because I’d rather not have to lug said notebook around with me.
Convenience and Security are different goals. You can either put security before or after convenience.
I’m gonna go for taking reasonable action of fortification and then try my luck.
And negative, usable security is a delicate balance of security and convenience. It employs various layers of usable redundant security methods that keep things to the best possible and reasonable level of security available, while also maintaining useful defense. If I were doing anything rendering me a target of a malicious actor, that’s a different story. But run of the mill individual passwords for each website/service coupled with 2FA along with password database encryption is enough to keep a nobody like me reasonably comfortable.
I’m not typing a 64-character random string from a notepad everytime I log in somewhere tho
And an encrypted vault probably has a near 100% success rate even if the attacker has access to it given a sufficient vault password.
I really liked Glassdoor when I first used them to find out salaries. Since “pivoting” and adding the fishbowls or whatever, the site has been unpleasant to use. Reason this users experience makes me sick. I just deleted my account even though I doubt it’ll make a difference. Maybe something decentralized or open source will come along to take its place. Or maybe more laws can be passed to require listing salaries on job listings.
I’ve been using comprehensive.io for salaries. Its not as good as Glassdoor for data but, its free and gets the job done for me. Also, layoffs.fyi when I feel like getting depressed
I created my Glassdoor account about ten years ago. The only information they required at the time was an email address
An email address is usually also directly linked to your identity… I wish more companies would not require it to signup… I do have throwaways and email accounts created using Tor though.
anonaddy, firefox relay, or something similar might be your solution. Many email providers provide temporary mails and permanent aliases as part of their subscription.
I’m not going to pay for fake email and 6 email addresses isnt enough (firefox relay)
And if you wsnt a FOSS option for unlimited email aliases - Duckduckgo is a good option.
DDG has an email service? :o
Not an email service per se, but rather an email-forwarding service, and offers unlimited duck [dot] com aliases with their browser extension and/or mobile app.
I have used their email forwarding service for a while (it is quite decent) before moving over to Firefox Relay.
Have you tried Firefox Relay?
I’m not going to pay for fake email and 6 email addresses isnt enough (firefox relay)
Pay? I’m just testing out the service now with one for free.
ETA: you get 5 free email masks or $1-2/month for unlimited.
Pretty sure @authed said 5-6 free address isn’t enough for thou.
That’s the way, at least here in Wakanda.
Wakanda
first time I hear about that, obviously it needs to be a real thing.
Do you have any FOSS oars?
Dirty fuckers.
So, is Bob’s Boat Oars hiring?
Lots of accounts ask for name and other proof. Credit cards, id, etc.
Sadly it’s the norm now.
laws need to be created for making this illegal, unless it is absolutely required for providing you the service.
Well, they don’t get my business. If they require something they don’t need, I look elsewhere.
Hey, can you help me out with some oars?
