They’re blaming customers for not having good cybersecurity practices instead of themselves for not having good cybersecurity practices.

  • pearsaltchocolatebar
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    10 months ago

    23andMe can have all of the security practices they want, but they can’t stop users from reusing passwords from other sites.

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      10 months ago

      Uhh yeah you can…

      Mandatory 2FA with phone and password retry count. If it’s targeted using breach data of email/passwords then the 2FA should still stop the majority…

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        10 months ago

        Shouldn’t service providers be hashing the plaintext passwords that show up in dark web leaks to see if matching users reused those passwords?

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          Wouldn’t really be of any use if they’re doing things right and salt their hashes