PocketCow
pocketcow@nostrplebs.com
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#Bitcoin only, financially illiterate psychopath.
NIP-65 advocate, grower of plants, roaster of coffee, noser of whisky, tinkerer of technology.
Testing cashu, here's some free sats:
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Just finished roasting some coffee. My house smells amazing now 😎
In light of the recent hack of LastPass, I think it's a good time to bring up password "peppering".
For critical passwords that you store on password managers, consider adding (or subtracting) characters to the password that only you know, and is not kept on the password manager itself.
For instance, say Bitwarden spits out a password for you like 123456. That's what you would store in Bitwarden, but you would add you "pepper" to the end of it (or middle, or beginning) when you signup for a service. So for example you may enter "123456abc", with "abc" being your pepper.
If your passwords were compromised, they wouldn't have your complete password.
More reading here:


Bitwarden
Pepper for your password | Bitwarden
For those vault items that need serious care, you might opt to go the peppering route to give them an added layer of security. Peppering is a great...
Seeing some people talking about seeing lightning during a snowstorm. This is called Thundersnow, it's a rare occurance.
Arthur Hayws still writes a decent article under house arrest, from time to time.
https://cryptohayes.medium.com/curve-ball-c9866f34555