Phishing emails routinely claim to have video of the recipient watching porn and other embarrassing things. If there was a genuine attack on any password manager we would have heard about it.
The alternative to using a password manager is very much worse - insecure passwords. If you dislike the cloud enough there are self hosted options. Hamish Sent from Nine ________________________________ From: JLWhitaker <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 28 February 2020 17:22 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINK] ABC Landline: Are we too reliant on technology? On 28/02/2020 3:01 pm, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Who said anything about cloud computing?! These malwares spread > through bugs in OSs, browsers etc. WannaCry infected Windows computers > throughout the world (eg hospitals) that had buggy Windows, nothing to > do with the cloud. But you must admit that relying on cloud storage for access to your information puts you to ransom of a working network. No malware necessary. Just a false sense of security. And think about this one: password managers. A friend of mine's wife has been told by ransomware threats that they have access to her password manager password. Talk about a golden key! She doesn't know what to do now. And it's an account she uses for supposedly secure information. Oh, and don't use Facebook to log in to other services. You'll get some mighty surprises from that, too. And it's intentional malware. Jan -- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Twitter: @JL_Whitaker Blog: www.janwhitaker.com Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
