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Cake day: June 11th, 2023
  • F04118F@feddit.nltoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Safe passwords
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    26 days ago

    I bet that 1234 is used more often because of the 4-character minimum, like PIN codes on debit cards. It’s 4 characters so it’s safe. 123, on the other hand, is not safe, because it is 3 characters. /s

    My solar inverter admin interface has a certain 4-digit password. So I wanted to change it to secure it, and found out that it only allows 4-digit passwords. Luckily the access point can be set up with a higher entropy password though (it is constantly advertised and had a very “secure” 8-digit password by default, I think you can guess which one)

  • F04118F@feddit.nltoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Using Tailscale As A Traditional VPNEnglish
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    27 days ago

    The way I understand it, there’s 2 use cases for a VPN, with different concerns and providers:

    • having access to your private home network from anywhere, through an encrypted tunnel (Tailscale, Wireguard on the router, etc)
    • having your outgoing traffic to the internet go through an anonymized exit node so that your ISP can not watch or sell what you are doing (ProtonVPN, Mullvad VPN, etc)

    Is Tailscale fit for the second? I thought not, as the exit node is not an anonymized VPN server but one of your own machines.

  • F04118F@feddit.nltoBuy European@feddit.uk•*Permanently Deleted*
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    29 days ago

    I agree!

    I think that we will keep having a mixup of “Buy European”, “Boycott US” and “Privacy” because of the typical overlap of reasons why consumers change their behavior. I really like the visualisations that acknowledge this difference and indicate which alternatives satisfy which reasons for wanting to switch away from American providers.