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Use the "passwords" feature to check if one of yours is compromised. If it shows up, never ever reuse those credentials. They'll be baked into thousands of botnets etc. and be forevermore part of automated break-in attempts until one randomly succeeds.

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 327 points 3 weeks ago (95 children)

Protip for the room: Use a password manager with a unique password for every service. Then when one leaks, it only affects that singular service, not large swaths of your digital life.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 96 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)
[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 39 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I hate how many places don't allow for + aliases. I want to know who leaked my email.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At the same time, it is trivially easy to strip a + alias, so I'd not trust it to do anything much at all.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you use aliases for all services, it makes it slightly harder to automate trying one leaked email on another site, since the hacker needs to add the new alias on the other service.

No one is going through of all these credentials manually, so any extra obscurity can actually bring you security in a pinch. Although if you have different passwords this shouldn't matter much...

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

No, you just run a simple Regex on both combolists and are done. It literally takes seconds

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