Bye bye Europe?

[Aqua Letifer]

@george-k said in Bye bye Europe?:

@george-k said in Bye bye Europe?:

After being hacked

Gotta admit - I'm on FB, though not for anything serious.

How, exactly, does one get "hacked" on FB?

Happened to me in December, apparently. Someone was able to log in as me and was trying to get people to, I dunno, do things.

I don't care, though, because I haven't used the shit for yonks and don't intend to now.

No idea how it happened. My passwords are pretty good.

[George K]

@aqua-letifer said in Bye bye Europe?:

My passwords are pretty good.

Please share...

[Aqua Letifer]

@george-k said in Bye bye Europe?:

@aqua-letifer said in Bye bye Europe?:

My passwords are pretty good.

Please share...

I wrote a program that makes them for me using time signatures that never repeat. (This was before password auto-generate.)

Yes, Klaus, this isn't perfectly random but it's a shitload better than basing it off of personal information.

[Klaus]

@aqua-letifer said in Bye bye Europe?:

Yes, Klaus, this isn't perfectly random but it's a shitload better than basing it off of personal information.

Are you talking to me?

My standard passwords are "password" and "1234".

[Aqua Letifer]

@klaus said in Bye bye Europe?:

@aqua-letifer said in Bye bye Europe?:

Yes, Klaus, this isn't perfectly random but it's a shitload better than basing it off of personal information.

Are you talking to me?

My standard passwords are "password" and "1234".

Okay then.

[George K]

@klaus said in Bye bye Europe?:

Are you talking to me?
My standard passwords are "password" and "1234".

Perfect!

I assume your usernames are unique for every site.

Care to share?

[Klaus]

Depending on the password requirements, I occasionally also use "password1234" if it must be a letter-number-mix, or "Password1234" if it must contain both upper- and lower-case letters. The most sophisticated variant is if a non-letter non-number symbol is also required: "P@ssword1234".

Genius, isn't it?

[LuFins Dad]

@aqua-letifer said in Bye bye Europe?:

Happened to me in December, apparently. Someone was able to log in as me and was trying to get people to, I dunno, do things.

Wait… That wasn’t you? Then who the hell did I send the pictures to?

[Aqua Letifer]

@lufins-dad said in Bye bye Europe?:

@aqua-letifer said in Bye bye Europe?:

Happened to me in December, apparently. Someone was able to log in as me and was trying to get people to, I dunno, do things.

Wait… That wasn’t you? Then who the hell did I send the pictures to?

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[Larry]

@george-k said in Bye bye Europe?:

@george-k said in Bye bye Europe?:

After being hacked

Gotta admit - I'm on FB, though not for anything serious.

How, exactly, does one get "hacked" on FB?

I have no idea how hacking works, but don't ever try to buy anything advertised on FB Marketplace. Somehow, scammers can hack into an innocent persons account and use it to advertise things like "2019 Cadillac for 2800 dollars.. 32,000 miles, always garage kept. " if you report the ad to FB as a scam, the ad will say "this seller has turned on vacation mode and can no longer send or receive messages". The problem - the hacker is able to add to that message "I'm advertising this for my aunt. Contact her at betty156@gmail.com....."