felixfoertsch

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Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
To me, this totally depends on your threat model.

Generally, a one-time password is an additional security measure that prevents someone from going to a website and simply using obtained credentials (eg from a leak) or brute-forcing them. An attacker needs the second factor.

If you store your 2FA secret alongside your password in a password manager, you still gain protection from these attacks. And it's very convenient. However, you also increase your attack surface: if they break into your password manager, your done.

If your threat model allows it (mine does), this is still very secure and also very convenient.

Comment · 2 years ago
+1 get Anki, start building you deck. Especially for the theoretical classes it's a god sent to just know definitions, proofs, etc by heart. They will be useful during all of your studies and it can't hurt to continue knowing them.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
I really wish people would stop using "beautiful" as if it were an objective adjective.
Comment · 6 years ago
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Comment · 6 years ago
Can anybody share some insight as to why the PiP mode is implemented non-natively? Both macOs and Windows have a system PiP mode that should be usable?
Comment · 7 years ago
Most important comment. Took me about 3 unnecessary minutes to find that information; should have looked in the comments first.
Comment · 7 years ago
I feel the same way. These guys are in every thread about editors posting a link to their site. They posted about it so often, I wish I had a filter for it by now. I think HN has to step up their adblock game.
Comment · 7 years ago
I was thinking of web apps like MS Teams that just simply do not allow to open a new tab on click for whatever reason. I can open the app in two windows just fine, but I can't right/middle click on something to tell it to open in new tab. Why would I not want be able to open a Word Online document in a new tab directly?

There are other apps, that are even worse. Allowing something to open in a new tab/window but identifying that there are multiple windows open and just disabling all but the main window...

I don't understand developers that do this. I always felt that multiple tabs is a strength of the web. They worsen it somehow.

Comment · 7 years ago
> Open other part of your app in new tab. Unless the developers forbid it... and always finding new ways to forbid it...

Man I hate the new web.

Comment · 7 years ago
I love reading about EvE once in a while. It's almost as if there were a completely different space world out there with unlimited freedom and unlimited possibilities. I always feel the urge to join this world and explore it -- but then I come to the realization that it probably needs an exuberant amount of time and dedication to partake in these news worthy event and that most of the time it's probably a grind.
Comment · 7 years ago
Nice list and well designed, too. I dislike the "sign up and get 3 months free" ad for 1Password. I like 1Password and I am using it myself. However, to me, this gives off a wrong vibe on a security focused website.

One thing I read somewhere and previously never thought about: if you are _really_ about security, you should use a password manager and should enable 2FA.

But: you should not use one program for both (1Password offers this), because you are creating a single point of failure.

Comment · 8 years ago
I think it's satire.

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