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.
This is day 66 of #100DaysToOffload
