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  • If you do not set a master password for the browser (that you have to type before the saved passwords are filled in), the despite what others have written, the passwords are not really encrypted. They are, it just doesn’t matter. Because they are encrypted with the password of you OS user. So they are unreadable if someone steals your device or to any other users on your system, but any malware that runs in your user context has full access to the passwords any time you are logged on to the machine.

    Of course if you have malware on your system they can also log your master password as you type it, same with any other password manager. If you unlock the password save, it is available to malware in that moment.

    Also if you use passwords for anything other than websites you should have a password save for those passwords as well so why not have one single save instead of one in your browser and one outside of it.

    Tl:dr saving passwords in your browser is fine but you should absolutely set a master password. External password manager can be more pragmatic compared to browser only.



  • License? I never mentioned licenses.

    Selling drugs is illegal because drugs are illegal. If a OS without age verification is illegal, then (depending on how stupid the laws are) having a site where you can download such a OS could also be declared illegal.

    Basically force all providers of OSs to include verification or block downloads to those states, or face fines for “distributing illegal software”.

    I am saying, if they are stupid enough to do X they might be stupid enough to try the even more stupid thing to achieve X.




  • With a tiny bit of offsec you can make pretty bulletproof setup.

    Work only exists inside of a Win11 VM. It never touches the underlying system! All files associated with that VM (most importantly the virtual disk) live on a separate partition, or better separate drive. That partition is not mounted in fstab. So under normal circumstances it should never be mounted. So any fuck up they do to their Linux system will leave that partition untouched. If worst comes to worst that can boot a live iso from USB and run their work VM from there.

    I would trust that setup infinitely more than having windows as a base system.





  • Terminology: revoked means the issuer of the certificate has decided that the certificate should not be trusted anymore even though it is still valid.

    If a attacker gets access to a certificates key, they can impersonate the server until the validity period of the cert runs out or it is revoked by the CA. However … revocation doesn’t work. The revocation lists arent checked by most clients so a stolen cert will be accepted potentially for a very long time.

    The second argument for shorter certs is adoption of new technology so certs with bad cryptographic algorithms are circled out quicker.

    And third argument is: if the validity is so short you don’t want to change the certs manually and automate the process, you can never forget and let your certs expire.

    We will probably get to a point of single day certs or even one cert per connection eventually and every step will be saver than before (until we get to single use certs which will probably fuck over privacy)



  • You don’t need something ever. Sometimes you just want something because the alternative is realy bad. I don’t need to eat. I want to eat because I don’t want to starve.

    I want to watch a movie with my partner at the agrees time because otherwise they will be mad. I want to access my digitalized documents to send a letter in time because otherwise I will have to pay late fees. I want to access my gameserver because that’s the one time a week I get to have fun with my friends from my college time.

    There are many situations where I’d rather do the thing I want instead of doing maintenance.







  • That is the smallest scale of self hosting. The server and the client are the same device. It is also the most insecure way as you probably don’t have any backups and very limited storage space.

    Actually self hosting is the next step when you decide you want 5+ TB of data and have it automatically create backups. Digital storage media degrade pretty quickly and if you just have your movies on a hard drive in your computer, after 5-10 years you might start to lose quality or some files completely.