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Kid@sh.itjust.worksM to Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year ago

FBI Warns Americans to Start Using Encrypted Messaging Apps

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FBI Warns Americans to Start Using Encrypted Messaging Apps

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Kid@sh.itjust.worksM to Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    That’s great when my bank only uses sms for mfa though.

    Seriously, bank and credit card companies need to get with the program more than me and my friends.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksBanned
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      Steam. The store front I get my video games from. Has 2-factor authentication with a short time rotating code. To secure my Steam account.

      My bank uses SMS and “security questions” aka personal trivia questions.

      • Eezyville@sh.itjust.works
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        Easy to guess with some social engineering

        • Draconic NEO@sh.itjust.works
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          Or literally anyone who knows you. It’s based on the idea that strangers are the ones who will try to screw you over but everyone knows that it’s people who you know that end up screwing you over in most cases. So security questions are basically useless in all those cases.

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          While I agree with you, some people answer these questions with deliberately incorrect answers. If my closest friend tried to compromise my bank account with my security questions, he’d get them all wrong (and even he doesn’t know my wrong answers).

          Still a bad design, though.

    • Chais@sh.itjust.works
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      Right? Had a bank account once, where the login password could only have up to 8 characters. And only digits.

      • MTK@lemmy.worldBanned
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        Lucky, mine is 6 (yes, right now in 2024)

        • Chais@sh.itjust.works
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          I just checked my KeePass and turns out I still have the entry in the recycle bin.
          It was 5 digits. Admittedly, that was “back in 2012,” but still. For shame, Bank Austria!

        • xapr [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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          Swiss (Cheese) Bank?

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      That’s a huge part of why I use my brokerage, Fidelity, as my main bank, they support Symantec VIP TOTP. I prefer my regular TOTP solution, but this us miles ahead of literally every other bank I’ve used.

    • Eezyville@sh.itjust.works
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      The only bank that allowed me to use totp was a credit union. You’d think the rich ass banks could afford to hire a developer to set up good MFA.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        Yeah, and just for a few months. TOTP really isn’t that complicated…

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      That’s wild

  • samus12345@lemmy.world
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    1/20/25: FBI Orders Americans to Use Unencrypted Messaging Apps

  • imblue@feddit.org
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    Why not Matrix ? Its E2E nit just TLS and also it prevents vendor lock in. This way chosing a providor is really about trust and not also about having to chose the same thing what your friends use

    • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
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      https://element.io/blog/senators-implore-department-of-defense-to-expand-the-use-of-matrix/

    • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works
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      Someone didn’t see police got into it according to another article I just saw in another post.

      • 3 dogs in a trenchcoat@slrpnk.net
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        Different matrix

        • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works
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          Interesting. 2 spa with similar intents with the same name? Seems odd.

          I mean this comment was the first time I’ve heard of either one, but based on the original comment and that article I’m surprised to hear this.

  • ✨️🎇🎆🌐🗺🌐🎆🎇✨️@sh.itjust.works
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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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      https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/how-crackdown-transformed-lgbtq-activism-china

      Looks like they’re cracking down on LGBT

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  • sidtirouluca@lemm.ee
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    do other intelligence agencies say this aswell, most certainly, but i only ever read the FBI?

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