Off Topic Politics Thread

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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
Veering off topic here a bit, but passwords. My bugbear. People use dictionary words or birthdays etc as “easy to remember”. Also easy guess. People also use same passwords on multiple sites, so if you are compromised on LinkedIn (like a year or so ago), your whole online identity is compromised.

Use a password manager. I self host Bitwarden (called vault warden) but you don’t have to. For a few pounds a month they host it for you and there are auto fill extensions for all browsers. That way use a different unique password for everything (can auto generate in Bitwarden) and where possible use two factor (something you know - password, something you don’t - one time code).

Bitwarden is inherently secure in the cloud (unlike onepass) - there are many security experts reviews of it. I just like hosting it myself.

Public service announcement over before I start talking about self hosted search engines (searng if anyone wants to look…not using google lol)
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Password managers are great, and not just for security. We ran into an issue last year where we needed to submit something in an awful hurry to the US government (we have both a Cdn and US location), but our US office was closed, and the government site was geofenced. So I just retrieved the login credentials for my personal VPN from my password locker, downloaded it and logged in, and had the documents submitted in 15 minutes. Makes life so much easier than either having one very insecure password, or 100 that you have zero chance of remembering.
 
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I'm not a vindictive person normally but I do rather hope that Prigozhin wasn't killed in the explosion of his plane and had a little time to reflect on his life on the way down.
 
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Just upping the ante for gravity-induced offings. The next Russian oligarch to get crossways with Putin is going to fall out of the ISS.
 
The Ides of March said:
Suella/Sue Ellen Dallas !!
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"Sue-Ellen Cassiana "Suella" Braverman KC MP (née Fernandes; born 3 April 1980) is a British politician and lawyer. She has been the Home Secretary since 25 October 2022."

"She is the daughter of Uma (née Mootien-Pillay) and Christie Fernandes, both of Indian origin, who emigrated to Britain in the 1960s from Mauritius and Kenya respectively. She is named after the character Sue Ellen Ewing from the American television soap opera Dallas which was popular at the time of her birth."
 
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