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  1. If you want cheap I've had good success with WeVPN. Heard about them from Front Page Tech podcast and so far it's been fine. I do like PIA app design more but $30 a year for WeVPN in comparison to PIA $40, I'll take it. I find speeds and connections to be better on WeVPN. I've had to jump around a lot on PIA when a server was too slow or lagging. They're also not that big so many sites don't have WeVPN ip's blocked yet. I feel the whole privacy aspect of VPNs have gotten out of hand. Websites use more than your IP Address to determine who you are. And with most sites using HTTPS encryption I don't feel the need to spend that much on a VPN.
  2. Do you have a common email address like it's your name JohnSmith@gmail.com? Someone else with JohnCSmith@gmail.com is trying to log in and forgetting they have the C account. I would still change your email password just to be safe.
  3. To add to what everyone said so far, you can add a PIN to the end of the password that is inside your password manager. The actual password: z9AKAP75U2y1234 What you store in the password manager: z9AKAP75U2y When you log in just add the PIN. This way if someone got in your password manager they wouldn't have the real password. I wouldn't do this to every password, just the one important ones. Also, a password manager is not an all or nothing thing. If you want to leave out your banking or email passwords you can. What matters the most is that you're not reusing passwords.
  4. Bitwarden is what I like. I don't know how anyone can use the internet these days without a password manager of some kind. With all the websites getting hacked you're asking for it if you reuse passwords.
  5. Not only that but there is a lot of noise when it comes to quantum computers. That 53 of qubits is not fully useful. https://www.pcgamesn.com/quantum-computing-encryption-decryption-risk
  6. We do, the stuff they're working on now will come out usually in 5 years.
  7. The irony is that the real "hacking" is not shown to the public until it's not useful anymore.
  8. He said in the video that you'll have to buy a new Apple product every 2 years which is so wrong but the funny part is the next video he released was him working on his GF 2012 MacBook Air. And the only reason her MacBook Air needs work is that she spilled water on it. I'm starting to feel that he just says Apple sucks because he found his niche of people who hate Apple just to hate them without ever using them.
  9. We can play this game all day long https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/14/18623565/microsoft-windows-xp-remote-desktop-services-worm-security-patches At least the Mac issue was not as severe as anyone can remote access into your computer and install ransomware that just came out for Windows.
  10. I didn't like the video because he basically saying that Windows gets attacked more because it has a bigger market share. If this was true then wouldn't there be more "viruses" for iPhones? iPhones have a 49% market share in North America. Not only that but iPhone users spend more and make more so they would be ideal to steal from. Let's not forget that more than 78% of all iPhone users upgrade to the latest OS so building an exploit would be easier and cause the most damage, unlike the segmented Android market. Yet malware and viruses are only seen on Android. And I can hear many of you now... "The hackers want to go after businesses because there is more money to be made." 79% of all business are using iOS. With iOS being on devices that people carry everywhere with them it would be a better target than the one Windows PC at your desk. Yet, we're seeing fewer attacks on iOS, an OS that got a lot of its tech and security from MacOS (Unix). "BuT ThE MaRkEt sHaRe" is not a good excuse anymore.
  11. Write down your master password to your password manager. Keep that in a safe or in a safety deposit box. You could also create 4 random questions about your life and use the answers as your master password. This way you can write down the questions without the answers and keep it somewhere hidden, so if someone does find the paper they still don't know the answers. Another option is to create a fake URL and hide it among other URL's that you print out. Kind of like hiding it in plain sight. No one expects a list of URLs to be one of your master passwords. You could also take a document you've written like an old school paper and pick a random sentence from it to be your master password. It's another way to hide your master password in plain sight without forgetting it. As for the issue you have with keeping your passwords in one spot you could also do the 2 password managers option. You have one password manager for the super important passwords like banking or email. Then another password manager for the regular boring stuff. This way you disperse your attack surface but honestly this can be over done. One thing I like to do is have a password manager like KeePassXC to hold all my passwords and allow Chrome to store the less important ones for easier logins. If I need a new password I use KeePassXC to generate and store it and then let Chrome store it if it's not that important. This way I can keep the password manager closed when I don't need it as a password manager is only secure when its locked. My important passwords are safe and I get to keep easy access to my everyday passwords. I know you may think you only have 20 passwords, I thought the same thing until I got a password manager and realized I had over 100 passwords. It's so easy to forget all the passwords we created in the past until one of those accounts get hacked. While 2FA is great and secure, having a strong and unique password is more important. Just having 2FA and not a strong or unique password is making 2FA less secure and destroying its purpose. This article better describes this.
  12. It's a scam. Your password ended up on a breach and they want to get bitcoin from you. You can check out https://haveibeenpwned.com/ to see what breaches you're in. If you're not using a password manager it's time to start. Check out Bitwarden, 1Password, or KeePassXC if you want a local one. You need to give every account a unique password. Also, don't forget your master password to your password manager as most password managers don't have a reset option.
  13. Money and power. Intel wants to dominate at any cost.
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