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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    "If you have an algorithm that generates the same passwords for the same input every single time, the end result is the same as storing them in a file." When your passwords are in a file, it can be hacked and decrypted. When we have an algorithm, even if it is a public algorithm, there are too...
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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    "Well, where do you store your private DPG then?" Private DPGs are generators of passwords locations to which (URLs) are known only to users. Private DPGs as well as public DPGs do not store passwords in any place. "And what happens when that computer fails?" Private DPGs are hosted on multiple...
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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    The hacker can do this with public DPGs, but she/he can not do this with private DPGs. (step 6 is not possible) If you use the last mentioned method (unhackable passwords) hackers will not be able to brute-force your passwords even with quantum computers.
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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    If you use a private dynamical password generator you will avoid this scenario. If you need to increase security use this method https://www.publish0x.com/simple-solutions-to-complex-problems/a-simple-way-to-create-unhackable-passwords-xeenglp
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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    "But I use the dynamical password on FLF and then I use it on 10 other sites... if one of those 10 sites get's hacked and the password leaked, the other sites are now all going to get "hacked" as well with credential stuffing." You generate strong different dynamical passwords for ALL your...
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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    First, you generate strong passwords for all your 200 accounts with a simple key (for example c4n and your birthday as a date. You do not need to remember them or store them in any place. You recreate them when you need them. In your example, suppose that the 1st generated password is for...
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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    "Not hacked, credential stuffing." Credential stuffing is a method of hacking. https://www.itsecurityguru.org/2023/01/20/35000-paypal-accounts-hacked/ If the users would used dynamical passwords these would not happen.
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    Seeking a Way Out of the Inertia I am. Trying to Find Something to Create Value

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    You can try Pinterest as well. It is free and does not require a lot of efforts. You need some pictures (you can get for free from Canva, etc.)) Here are results of my experiments. 1. Created 6 pins (15 minutes) 2. Scheduled them on Pinteests with interval of two days. After 20 days get 37 views...
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    Advice on marketing direction for my unique business

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    " I guess the advice I'm looking for is this: how am I supposed to find the best place to market to my customers when I can't copy competitors and should I start with another industry group? I'm also trying to find out what the best medium would be (PPC, email, etc)." No one will give you the...
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    Business owners! Need more sales?

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    "ChatGPT much? Those programs are often scams from what I've seen, I'd be very careful." No, not ChatGPT's type of programs. Those programs are modifications (suitable for small businesses) of popular referral programs that big companies like Tesla Motors, DropBox, T_Mobile, etc. have.
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    Business owners! Need more sales?

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    "Maybe the skills I have is basic sales and marketing knowledge, basic programming and some mathematics and physics." With such set of skill you can have success in participating in income or revenue sharing programs. In these type of programs you get income from sales generated by direct and...
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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    Now PayPal was hacked. https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/01/19/thousands-of-paypal-accounts-hacked-is-yours-one-of-them/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/paypal-accounts-breached-in-large-scale-credential-stuffing-attack/
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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    Even so we disagree on how strong encryption defenses are, it seems that you agree that solutions which prepared for era of quantum computers are better than the current solutions. "If this is something you're working on, please do keep me informed though!" Yes, I am working in this direction...
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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    I agree with you that dynamical passwords do not eliminate risks of hacking on merchants sites. But these risks are very small (according to you belief that encryption can not be quickly hacked). If there is a breach on a merchant site (it means that some encrypted files were hacked but were not...
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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    "not actually addressing the real problem" Probably we are talking about different problems. The problem is that if passwords stored in any place (server, computer, paper, etc.) they can be hacked in some way. Dynamical passwords solve this problem (of storing passwords in any place) and...
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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    "What happens if your chosen generator site goes down? Or changes its generator algorithm? Or gets hacked itself, and starts generating compromised passwords?" There are backups generators hosted in different countries and on different continents. In a very unlikely event that all servers will...
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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    "You're right in that the best password is one that doesn't actually exist, and this is along the lines of what hardware 2FA keys and Apple's new Passkey stuff does." 2FA was broken several years ago Two-factor authentication is broken: What comes next? | Computer Weekly. In a theory you are...
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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    "If you do not store the new password you generated ( on demand ) anywhere, how will you ever be able to remember it to log into something?" This is the main advantage of generated on demand passwords. You generate them when you need them. You do not need to remember them. For example, go to...
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    Looking for an idea for an iPhone app

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    Recent hacks of LastPass and Norton create a great business opportunity to apps developers, content creators, etc. to offer alternative solutions to traditional passwords managers.
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    Huge Security Alert: LastPass Suffers Major Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself!

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    1password stores passwords in encrypted files. Even so they have a better security policies they did not address the main problem. Anything that stored in a file can be hacked, stolen, damaged, confiscated, broken,etc. A simple solution is to not store passwords in any place and generate them...
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