I absolutely hate my cell being tied to signal though. And thoughts there? Is it really a non issue?

An excellent point I was unaware of! Thanks for the detailed response.

It’s something a rock says

Amazing video. Thanks for sharing. Great to show my normie friends lol

I personally recommend Session. Which is like signal but better. It is 100% zero user knowledge with no accounts emails or phone numbers. It just goes “here’s your ID have fun” and that’s it. Love it.

“Of course I know him, he’s me “

I don’t get it. How that does have to do with lemmy

Or ThreatX, I believe they are more inexpensive than CF

I literally cannot fathom how we’re still making IE memes in <current_year>

You can’t really even use IE because it’s been deprecated for so long. Windows will do everything to launch Edge or another browser. You’d have to be intentionally using like windows 7 at that point.

Oh thank fuck FINALLY

I understand entirely now what you meant, the phrase I haven’t heard before!

In that case though, I’d say, with schemes yes definitely, as you’re more at a disadvantage because you follow a pattern, vs not doing so and having a unique password ( and ideally a unique username/ email for every account! Use a email forwarding service like simple login!)

Wait what? People have those? A lemmy is a real animal? So many new things at once for me

Holy shit agreed. The “thanks for le kind gold stranger” shit makes me want to fucking cut my throat. Some shit im begging to stay on leddit. All the shit on /r/circlejerk for example.

Edit: le thanks for the gold kind stranger

Oh jeez yes I believe master card does, I believe with citi 2% cash back all purchases cards. Please verify that first.

So sorry I don’t understand your question, schemes? Reuses schemes?

Generally speaking it’s always a good idea rotate passwords/secrets if any form of compromise is suspected . It’s just good practice, imo.

Yes CC info doe leak often, easier remedied with a cancellation, les so with SSN. We should not be using that for ID purposes in the first place and I hope we stop that practice.

It honestly sounds like you did everything right. I would’ve suggested everything you did. Credit freeze is #1, then passwords is #2. You did great.

As for your question, I’ve actually used several monitoring services and have had an overall positive experience but it’s definitely a mixed bag and YMMV. Some info I get is very specific and therefore helpful. Sometimes it’s extremely generic ie an alert that your primary email has been found on the dark web…. Ok, I would’ve gotten a similar repose with an “have I been pwned” search. I’ve been involved in like 15 days breaches, I fully expected that email to be found on the DW by now.

I also got these services all for free. One is permanent via my credit union which is great. I’ve gotten others as consolations from companies that have had breaches with my data.

I personally think it’s worth it to her even if she has to pay for a year or two and reevaluate from there, given her situation.

Many thanks!

Out of the loop here

Huge agree here. It’s really important to not run abandonware unless absolutely necessary.

Very scary if true. 30+ characters should be more than enough, not withstanding variables like using a password vs a pass phrase, if it was generated by a computer or human, etc, but very very scary.

Basically this goes to show that, again, if you’re on a nation states radar their is almost nothing you can do to stop them.