People have been cleaning their ears with cotton swabs for years. What other tools are being inadvertently used wrong?

@ediculous@feddit.nl · 1Y

People have been cleaning their ears with cotton swabs for years. What other tools are being inadvertently used wrong?

Extras · edit-2 1Y

Yeah knew a guy that used to work at a place where they had him change his password every 2 months or so kinda stupid. Entropy is really all you need to check. Also by special phrases do you mean ~~salting~~ peppering your passwords?

@boatswain@infosec.pub · 1Y

Salting and peppering isn’t something you do; it’s something the site does prior to hashing your password and storing the hash.

Extras · edit-2 1Y

Yes you’re correct but what I was referring to was using an extra string of characters to protect against a compromised password manager

Edit: Here’s a link to bitwarden’s website that further clarifies what I meant

Call me Lenny/Leni · 1Y

What do you mean?

Extras · 1Y

The peppering passwords? That’s where you add a special word or phrase in all of your passwords but not in your password manager. It’s usually done in case your password manager becomes compromised thats why I got a bit confused with your statement, haha

Call me Lenny/Leni · 1Y

Yes, or a general way of putting it anyways.