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Do you trust saving CC numbers in Firefox? (feddit.it)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I'm just scared that they're saved with reversible encryption on the disk, then malware could steal them

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I simply use my credit card number for my password on every site. it makes it so much easier to remember both. back in the day i would use my social security number. thanks to that simple trick, i never get robocalls or spam and i've been removed from most mailing lists because no one will ever issue credit or do business of any kind with me. a hacker stole my identity once and my credit score quadrupled. he even gave my identity back a week later!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago

    You joke but back in the 90s when I first used the internet in the library I had to choose a password for the email. And the requirements were weird. Needs to be an exact length, letters, numbers, and so on. Then I realized my country SSN was a perfect match with the requirements! "Wow that's perfect, so I gonna use that as a password, nobody gonna guess that" - the naïve boy thought. Of course it was hacked by some other classmate that got the same conclusion and I realized that it wasn't that perfect and that almost everyone had the same idea due to the strict exact length requirements. (SSN in my country can be easily found again if you know name and DOB)

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