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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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Easy to remember passwords (sort of) (todon.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by sintrenton@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Also wanted to test linking a Mastodon post of mine to my Lemmy account. If anything bungles up, sorry in advance!

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[–] gomp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wasn't recommending OP to switch to an 80-character passphrase (see the very first sentence in my comment)... I was just showing that passphrases are about length and not about ~~(real or perceived) randomness~~ how difficult they are to memorize or type.

Also, if I may, one shouldn't throw terms like "unbreakable" around: security is a game where you trade usability for resilience to attacks and what how much security is enough security depends on your specific circumstances and risk profile... absolute terms like "unbreakable" picture security as something different than the compromise it is and should be left to marketing people.

edit: (see correction above)