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[–] midas@ymmel.nl 180 points 1 year ago (7 children)

https://haveibeenpwned.com

To figure out if your email addresses are part of a known breach. Also, start using a password manager (https://bitwarden.com)

[–] brayd@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A good alternative to Bitwarden is KeePass/KeepassXC btw

[–] protput@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A good alternative to keepass is a self hosted vaultwarden btw. (compiled from bitwardens opensource code iirc)

[–] brayd@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

I agree. But I think is much easier for people to use KeePass compared to self hosting Vaultwarden

[–] sol@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vaultwarden is not compiled from Bitwarden's code, it's a separate project and codebase but designed to be compatible with Bitwarden's API.

Bitwarden is open source and you can self-host it but IIRC it's a bit more complex and resource-hungry than Vaultwarden.

[–] dan@upvote.au 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They have totally different design goals which is why Bitwarden is more resource-hungry and more complex to deploy. Bitwarden can scale up to large use cases such as companies with hundreds of thousands of employees (it's what they run on the hosted version, after all), whereas Vaultwarden is designed to be small and light for home use cases where you almost always have <10 users total.

[–] Concept1037@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I agree, I do this and it works great.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nothing can beat passwords written on paper though

[–] ghostwolf@lemmy.fakeplastictrees.ee 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So I will write them on a rock, instead.

[–] eating3645@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

But paper beats rock

I was talking about digital espionage, assuming one is not stupid enough to record their offline passwords digitally

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 2 points 1 year ago

But rock beats scissors. What if paper has an alliance with rock to be protected from scissors in return for paper not covering rock?

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Physical access can. Indentations on the below page can. Fire and moisture can. Someone looking over your shoulder can.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I found keepassium for the work phone and I was in love that I could keep a separate db with my OTPs under a password and backed up.

Then I left that job and had to split my OTPs. Vanilla keepass for droid will gives me the OTP values for gitlab etc, so it's good there, but Vanilla keepassium for Android has no camera/QR->OTP input that I have yet, one that works like keepassium does and is all compatible down the line. I'd love to keep using it to maintain the existing separate keepass OTP db I have.

Do you (or anyone) know of a good combo for droid that gets

  • keepass
  • backup to box/gdoc/etc
  • qr for OTP

In one final package? Does XC do it in a way we think may be compatible?

[–] Futurama@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Keepass2Android does all that on android. It natively supports Dropbox, google drive, one drive, nextcloud, pcloud, and mega, plus you can use WebDAV or sftp. When editing an entry, the totp setup has the ability to scan qr codes with the camera. Plus, the whole thing is free and open source.

They even have a package on F-Droid, though that build lacks the built-in support for cloud syncing (due to F-Droid restrictions prohibiting binaries, I think).

I've used this app for years on android, paired with various cloud sync options as providers change their restrictions and capabilities. On desktop, I use keepassxc.

[–] Lewistrick@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hm i switched from KeePass to Bitwarden because the latter lets me use my passwords on multiple devices and as a Firefox extension that enters my credentials at a shortcut.

Can you elaborate why you think KeePass is better?

[–] brayd@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

I think it’s more flexible. Also, due to the databases just being normal files you can sync them with syncthing between your devices.

In my case I run a NAS at home on which they’re stored so I don’t need to sync them. I just open them directly from the NAS.

[–] Celediel@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I do all of that with Keepass, for what it's worth.

[–] mastermind@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Similar site for figure it out you're trained for AI model:

https://haveibeentrained.com/

[–] CyanFen@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All this does is return a page of memes when i search

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Spoiler alert: Yes. Yes it has.

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this really that useful though?

I pretty much just assume that I'm getting pwned regularly.

Obviously the password manager advice is very useful.

[–] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is this really that useful though?

It's very useful if you don't use a password manager and/or reuse passwords.

The most useful part about it to me is the API. You can tie it in to Active Directory to blacklist all hashes that appear in any breach, plus expire/force a password change if any user on your domain uses a password that has been in a breach. It completely eliminates that vector from threat actors immediately.

So yeah, I would call this intensely useful.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The most useful part about it to me is the API. You can tie it in to Active Directory

This trick alone makes my Lemmy addiction pay off. Thanks for even suggesting such magic is possible. Adding that as a task after my samba-AD rebuild this very f'n week.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So who has the highest score? I've got 21 on my OG email and 13 on my primary 🀣

[–] cazool@blip.cf 2 points 1 year ago

30 on my OG and what use to be my primary up until a year ago.

[–] linux_user_6967@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and if my Email is part of any kind of breach, is thier something else I should do beside changing my password ?

PS: I do have 2FA activated already

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Use a unique password for everything. I recommend bitwarden