EuroNutellaMan

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Signal, tho I'm not sure it has a web interface, I use their flatpak on Linux, they have apps for other OSes too (and obviously for your phones)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Pro tip: you can turn the link into ddinstagram to embed on services like Discord and other ones with embeds. This way you don't have to visit the site

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

not for Visas but we do use it for several public uses.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

bruh what? Italy a lot of towns have a telegram and a whatsapp channel. Everyone uses whatsapp here and it's similar in Ukraine, Ireland, and several other places.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

2FA should always be enabled. Doesn't mean you always have to log out of a website. It's a massive important security feature: it saves your ass if your passwords are leaked/cracked/bypassed and it warns you that someone is trying to access your account. Apps like ProtonPass literally make it extremely trivial to fill it in, just push the button that pops up and it will autofill the 6 digit code (or copy it to your clipboard in the worst case), it's not SMS 2FA, so you're frankly stupid for not using it if you have that option.

You didn't address shit, strong passwords will still be vulnerable to certain attacks even if everyone used them. This isn't a privacy matter either it's a security one and regardless of what your threat model is 2FA should always be part of your security, there's a reason more and more websites and apps are pushing it, cause if you don't force idiots to adopt it they won't even if it's extremely important, same reason as why we need rules to make passwords more complicated. It may be an inconvenience (very tragic for the user I know, how dare they make something that autofills and takes a few seconds of my day away from watching useful shit like brainrot and some dumb comments on my favorite social media platform) but it's an extremely important and necessary measure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's still nowhere near as secure and convenient as using an appropriate tool. You will either have one that is easy to decipher and remember or one that is hard to decipher and remember. And you have to do it every time but at that point you might aswell just remember one password/passphrase and use it for your password manager, defeating the whole point.

Also bare in mind convenience is important in security, if a measure is very inconvenient you will eventually just bypass it on your own cause you can't be arsed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Absolutely not. You should always use 2FA. Most decent password managers even make it easy for you.

While cracking a strong password is nigh impossible rn they are still vulnerable to data breaches and pass-the-hash attacks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I mean I used to say the same but then I did after doing more research in mozilla's privacy things. Also Ladybird is coming at some point and frankly can't wait for that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I disagree. Password managers are still target of threat actors, a juicy one at that, but it's not too often you hear of breaches of good password managers. Chances are the people behind the good password managers are better at security than 99% of users (including more technical ones). Even after a breach exporting all the passwords and moving them to another service, and changing all your passwords again with more secure ones is trivially easy.

If everyone used them sure there'd be more pressure on said password managers but hackers will find it a lot more difficult to hack anything in general and it will still not be worthwhile to hack average users who use a password manager.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Unless the website is handled by complete morons it stores credentials in an hashed format. Usually to crack this we'd use rainbow tables or wordlists of known passwords, and essentially we use every word to generate the hash until it matches.

If your password is strong and hasn't been compromised (check regularly on haveibeenpwned) it will likely not be in any wordlists and it also won't be easy to crack. Now, password managers can generate the best passwords because they're completely random and very long by default so to crack them you'd have to try every possible character combination, this takes time, and specifically a time so long that statistically the andromeda galaxy and milky way will merge into one before the password is cracked (at least until quantum computers become a thing, then it's mere minutes).

2FA helps because even if they crack the password they then need the 2FA code, which you can't really guess or brute force and is seen on a third party app you don't control (unless you use sms, they can spoof SIMs ro view the sms you receive and therefore degeat 2FA). It also doubles as something that alerts you that someone is trying to access your account.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I mean, using password managers is both more convenient and more secure than 99% of things most user do to handle passwords so idk.

And some like Proton Pass also double as 2FA apps and make that trivially easy too by autofilling everything with a click

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

No. Anyone near you or with access to your place can see it. And most people know of the tricks.

Also you can't encrypt it and most of all you can't really generate as strong passwords as those generated by password managers, meaning I don't even need the paper to try and crack your password

 
 

Hello everyone,

I set up a file-sharing server on my raspberry pi using samba and tailscale to connect to it from networks that aren't the same as the raspberry pi's.

Recently I added a second user so that they can backup their stuff. On linux everything works fine but on Micro$hit's Windows 10 it doesn't let them connect to the file server. Or rather, at first I tried with an unrelated person who only accessed the public folder as a "guest" (rather: no user) from windows and it worked. Then we tried with this person and it let her access the server at first but wouldn't let her log in with her credentials. Turns out I forgot to add the user to samba, so I do that, reboot the server, and then it just doesn't let her connect to the server in the first place, giving an 0x80004005 unspecified error.

I should also point out that she's accessing the machine as an external tailscale user with the device being shared to her.

What could be the cause of this and how can we go about solving it? I'd love to just tell her to just install linux and be on with our day but that simply isn't much of an option.

Sorry if the information isn't too precise, I'm still a bit of a noob.

EDIT: It works through the local network after disabling the firewall but connecting through tailscale doesn't work.

 

Hello everyone,

I am very new to self-hosting. I just set up a file sharing server with raspberry pi and samba. Now I'm sure this is asked quite a bit but searching for it I couldn't find the answers I'm looking for most of the time or the answers are confusing.

I need to be able to access the raspberry pi from different networks than the ones it is connected to. Specifically in 2 ways:

  1. I need to access it via ssh to manage it remotely. I know you can do this by port-forwarding port 22 but that doesn't seem safe looking at a recent post here. I heard about tailscale but I'm not sure how it works too well rn and while I am willing to learn I want to ask what other options are out there and which ones do you guys prefer usually.

  2. I need to be able to access the files in the server while following the samba configurations I set up. For me it is fine to use the file explorer normally used with samba, especially if that works with tailscale or whatever solution for point 1, but I plan to share some directories with some close friends who are not tech savvy at all and I know the idea of typing an ip adress in the file manager every time may scare them already, let alone having to install something like tailscale or anything. So I wanted to try and make something easier to access, like a self-hosted website or a web ui (I tried the one recommended in this guide, and therefore the relevant instructions in this github page, but it wouldn't install for a bunch of problems that make no sense). Doesn't need to be anything fancy, just an address to type in the browser and it will show the files (according to the samba configs so directories not public require a log-in), download them and upload some. The main point is that it needs to be very easy for the end-user who wants to download/upload files from anywhere, ease to set up is ok but not necessary. Do you guys know any good resources for stuff like this or program I can use without having to make a website from scratch (I will do it if necessary but I'd rather avoid that)?

Thanks and sorry for the very noobish questions.

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