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Please can I ask why use unique emails for every website?
I just received an email to myfitnesspal2011@mydomain.tld:
Hi, I know one of your passwords is: anactualpasswordthatiused
blah blah i have video of you wanking, pay me 1 million dollar in bitcoin etc...I know that this is from an account that I set up on myfitnesspal. In 2011.
I'm not concerned, as 1) I used a unique password for that site (also, fuck that site for storing plain text / nonhashed passwords), and 2) I only used that email on that site.
That account may be compromised, but I otherwise have nothing to be concerned with.
(Worth noting - All of my memorable information / additional security questions are all 128+bit randomly generated passwords too. I mean- why compromise every account with the same easily remembered & easily guessed information?)
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@Velocio thanks so much. You evidently care about all this and most people (me currently) don't do anything about it or understand it at all, so it would be beneficial.
Definitely overwhelming but I actually have a month off at the moment so I can do parts of this. Please can I ask why use unique emails for every website? And why not connect your smart TV to a network - wouldn't that make it useless?