First of all, you injected yourself in my debate with another person. You do it by answering for that person, which mean, you lie by default, since you don’t know that persons answers. Then you say there are no end-to-end encryption by default, but that depends on what you use it for. Calls are encrypted by default.
But nice to know that you really didn’t have any serious red flags. Now it would be nice to hear from the person I was originally debating with…
There’s end-to-end encryption. It’s fine that you can chose what needs to be private, and what doesn’t need to be.
There could be several reasons as to why the servers are not OS. Why do you need that part to be OS? Seriously, why?
Oh, so your problem with Telegram is, that it had some issues in the past, just like EVERY other app in the beginning? Nice one. :-)
So, let’s summarize.
You contradict yourself. You can’t say that the price is fair, for something that doesn’t have the features that the price should cover.
Feel free to list them - with evidence and not just prejudice…?
We all know that using youtube, it like trying to stay on the good side of a huge bully. I still can’t figure out why anyone would like to use it, and other similar sites.
I don’t mind paying a fair price, for a service, so they should go for it. I use both Signal and Telegram, and I would pay for Telegram too, if the price was more fair…
Everything is insecure for the user. Google, Apple, Windows, knowingly includes apps with features that is ignoring your privacy. So “insecure” is a wide topic, we’ve accepted to debate only in certain narrow areas. F-Droid makes people a little more aware.
I wasted a few hours, trying to make some flatpak apps do as I wanted, before I understood how flatpaks works, and why they are not always a good solution.
I use yWriter, Scrivener (not FOSS, but worth the little money it costs) and LibreOffice. I feel well prepared for any writing.
I have a shitty memory, but I know myself, and how to work with me. That’s not a great memory I have, that’s common sense and knowing how I work.
You don’t really get the point here. You have to remember 1 system - not 20 passwords. Be as stressed as you want to, but even with a password manager, you have to remember the password for that. That’s 1 password you HAVE to remember, or all your passwords are lost.
I’m talking about remembering 1 system to make your passwords from - that will make different passwords for every app and site, that you can remember, because you remember the system behind it. You kan read about it here (though it is not the system that I use, it’s a great example): https://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Password-You-Can-Remember
Let me put a system together for you, as an example.
You want a password for this site. It’s online, so you chose to put “ol” in your code. To make it unique, you chose to put “leml” for the first and last 2 characters. You like Guns’n Roses, and especially November rain, which you sing along to, so you put “WiLiYe” into it, for the first letter of each word, from the first line of the lyrics; “When I look into your eyes”.
Now you have both a unique code, and big and small letters. Now you separate it by using the ¤ sign, to also ad a special character, so your code looks like this now: olleml¤WiLiYe¤
Now for some numbers, that some sites like you to put in. Chose your lucky number, or maybe your birthday, and then add your lucky number. Say you were born 1989 in October (10th month), and your lucky number is 13. Then you can add 13 to both the year and the month. 2002 and 23. Put that on you code… olleml¤WiLiYe¤2002¤23
Now you have a unique code and a system you can remember. Even if you write your system down, it would be hard for others to figure out. It might look like: Type of connection, first and last two, first line high and low, born with luck… 3 times upper four (for the ¤ sign - at least on my keyboard).
Good luck figuring that out without any hints… :-)
Next time you come to another homepage, let’s say facebook, you code will look like: olfaom¤WiLiYe¤2002¤23 The first part is unique, and it can’t just be hacked, even though there are some similarities…
It’s not common sense, unless you are already determined, that you have made a flaw from the beginning. Predictability is ONLY possible, if you know the way the password combinations was made, or if you have enough (at least 5-10) different passwords, from the same person, and could figure out their system - which is hard, even at that point.
Thanks for advising me to do some research. How about you point me to what you are talking about, or else I could just say, that you should go do some research that proves I’m right. See… that’s meaningless. I am smarter than you - MR. I try to demean people I talk to, because I’m the smartest…
That’s just sad - a lightbulb with a password. 😅 I’m not talking about reusing passwords, but thanks for you comment.
Great system you have there. Yeah, places like work, that makes you switch often (witch is also a security risk in some ways), can be a problem. But they might have their own system added. You say every 3 months, and I’d probably put the season on the password then - like winter, spring, summer and fall…
Thanks for sharing some common sense here.
You are looking for at fight. That’s obvious. That’s why any sane person wouldn’t want to engage with you in a debate. I don’t have a scheme, why do you lie? Please explain what “scheme” i have, since you already know it? With is ironic, since you want me to explain it to you… You want a fight, and you are very easily revealed.
It’s okay that you don’t get the example as I said it was. It’s even okay that you haven’t moved on. What’s sad is, that you think it’s about a belief. I’ll take a wild guess here, and say that you might be religious too…
Anyway, if you don’t feel like doing it the smart way, just don’t. It’s really that easy. It must be sad, needing to comment on anything that you don’t like, because you do it differently.
If people get overwhelmed, then it’s because they don’t follow their own system. Remembering a system, is a lot easier than you seem to think. Every single person I’ve taught this, uses it. A few I know also uses Firefox’s build in password manager, because it’s easier across devices, but that’s about it. Not a single one uses any other password manager, and they don’t need to.
That’s a lot of logins you have. Do you use them all? Feel free to do as you like. It’s just sad that you can’t accept that some people have different abilities and experiences than you.
Good to hear that every expert elected you to be their spokesperson. Trying to borrow ethos from other experts is just sad. But do you know why they will often say that? Because they know that a lot of people otherwise would use 1234 or abcd… So that’s the easy advice. The good advice would be to teach people to make a strong and memorable password.
Well, what might your arrogance cost you, since you are sitting here, trying to pass yourself of as spokesperson for **EVERY **expert in cybersecurity?
To the people in here, that gets rude and condescending when I try to tell them, that there’s a better way to remember passwords, here’s just one page that explains how it might be done. And yes, this is as unbreakable as random passwords. And you can easily make part of password change for the site or app you use it for… But hey, feel free to keep attacking me, for knowing something that you didn’t…
So far, don’t you think that you really would know, if government was involved in any way that didn’t involve crime fighting? Do you prefer an app, where crime roam free? Is that your issue? That it doesn’t?
AFAIK it’s you and two others, who don’t acknowledge my preferences… So please consider following your own advice!