Data breach on this site?

[Juan]

Maybe I don't understand what you're trying to say but I would imagine that using WPA2/AES and a VPN would keep out hackers.

Only if its an honest vpn

 

[Don in CT]

Only if its an honest vpn

Nothing is secure if the back end is compromised.

 

[LocutusOfBorg]

Only if its an honest vpn

It's my personal VPN server using Wireguard.

 

[Juan]

It's my personal VPN server using Wireguard.

There ya go

 

[harshness]

Sorry..but that really doesn't help that much anymore

It helps a whole lot more than fabricating passwords that won't be accepted by most sites.

 

[Juan]

It helps a whole lot more than fabricating passwords that won't be accepted by most sites.

So you can only have a hackable password?

 

[david_jr]

Is there an English version of this thread available?

 

[Bobby]

Is there an English version of this thread available?

You mean a layman's version. It's perfect English, just not understandable to the common man!

 

[Radioguy41]

They're using publicly available password lists to compare against.

No, they're comparing the passwords for the different logons on your computer with each other but that isn't the point. The point is that they're reading your passwords at all. By anyone's standards that is a data breach.

Google will warn you when your passwords are too simple to guess and used too often

Google is adding a new "Password Checkup" feature to the Chrome browser and the existing Google Account Password Manager that with a single click can warn you if your passwords are too weak or too often used in multiple places.

 

[klang]

No, they're comparing the passwords for the different logons on your computer with each other but that isn't the point. The point is that they're reading your passwords at all. By anyone's standards that is a data breach.

Google will warn you when your passwords are too simple to guess and used too often

Wouldn't that only work, in theory at least, if you have Chrome save site login credentials. I do for places like this but not everywhere.

 

[harshness]

No, they're comparing the passwords for the different logons on your computer with each other but that isn't the point. The point is that they're reading your passwords at all. By anyone's standards that is a data breach st

Is it a breach if the information doesn't leave your computer? By most standards, it isn't.

 

[NYDutch]

No, they're comparing the passwords for the different logons on your computer with each other but that isn't the point. The point is that they're reading your passwords at all. By anyone's standards that is a data breach.

Google will warn you when your passwords are too simple to guess and used too often

You seem to be implying that there's someone sitting behind a screen at Google reading our saved passwords, which of course is not happening. The passwords are simply parsed by a software utility that checks for specific parameters. The use and storing of passwords is completely under the users control. It's a simple matter to turn off the password management, storage, and synchronization features if you're afraid of them.

 

[NYDutch]

You seem to be implying that there's someone sitting behind a screen at Google reading our saved passwords, which of course is not happening. The passwords are simply parsed by a software utility that checks for specific parameters. The use and storing of passwords is completely under the user's control. It's a simple matter to turn off the password management, storage, and synchronization features if you're afraid of them.