Back in the day I was very much into security, privacy and such, but over time things tend to change and that is the case for my password vault...
Years ago at this point in time, I used to be a bit of a security and privacy enthusiast. I like to think that I still follow many good practices and measures to live a good, responsible internet life. However, there are other many aspects of this where I kind of stopped caring.
Don’t get me wrong, I will still use different passwords and enable 2FA for 95% or so of the accounts and websites I use. But there are other things I stopped doing and while I know I should probably put more effort on them, I just haven’t bothered.
For example, using email aliases is something I don’t really do except for very specific usecases. Most of the time I use one of 5 or 6 legit emails instead of trying to use one of the services I literally already used such as Firefox Relay, SimpleLogin or at least DuckDuckGo’s.
Another thing I should really do is delete my unused accounts, this was one of my first blogposts and it’s kind of nostalgic looking back at younger me writing so enthusiastically about having a responsible digital life or whatever. I would love if you guys check it out as well, it still has some good advice!
Despite it all, one of the things I still manage to do sometimes is keeping my family members’ accounts in check, ever since I moved my parents to using more FOSS like a password manager, they have managed to keep at it, and when they move devices I usually help them retrieve the important info from them as well.
My password manager of choice is still KeepassXC, at some point I was using pass, but those days are long gone now. I have a little too many devices and managing PGP can be a bit annoying. I still use pass in some scripts but nowhere near as often as before, I think it’s still a pretty neat password manager to be honest, maybe I’ll revisit it…? Nah. I’m good.
A family friend's kid asked me to take a look at a old computer he got as a gift from an uncle, so I decided to help, secretly hoping he learns computing is pretty cool.
