![]() I also set it to “hide,” so I couldn’t view the contents of the e-mail until it’s sent. I didn’t remember doing this, but I must have gotten so fed up with myself that I locked myself out until 2018. I decide to scrounge up my old account and find my Reddit password. This means waiting, and waiting of course means internet rabbit holes. And Airbnb, it so happens, has a large test suite. It worked quite well from what I remember.Įventually I got so busy with programming stuff, I completely forgot about it. Perfect - an automated, friend-less solution! (I’d alienated most of them by now, so that was a big selling point.)Ī bit sketchy looking, but hey, any port in a storm.įor a while I set this up this routine - during the week I’d e-mail myself my password, on the weekends I’d receive the password, load up on internet junk food, and then lock myself out again once the week began. A little Google searching, and I came across this: Looks legit. The technical terminology for this is that they are “nice to you” and will give you back your password if you “beg them.”Īfter a few rounds of this failure mode, I needed a more robust solution. Unfortunately it turns out, friends are very susceptible to social engineering. (Also changed the e-mail for password recovery to cover all the bases.) ![]() With that, I’d have a foolproof way to lock myself out of Reddit. Then I asked a friend to e-mail me this password on a certain date. So it occurred to me: how about I lock myself out of my account? 2015 was one of these times - I was singularly focused on improving as a programmer, and Redditing was becoming a liability. But sometimes you need to turn on the blinders and dial down distractions. If I want to procrastinate on something, I’ll often open a new tab and dive down a Reddit-hole. This allows me to consciously engineer my life so that despite having the emotional maturity of a heroin-addicted lab rat, I’m occasionally able to get things done. If so, stronger and unique passwords would not have made a difference.Ĭhrome Canary's new password generator UI is slicker than before, and automatically pops up as soon as the focus is put on an account registration password field.By Haseeb Qureshi That time I had to crack my own Reddit password (Kinda.) Hack the planet, everybody. Apple's CEO Tim Cook denied that iCloud had been hacked, but instead argued that attackers stole passwords by correctly answering reset questions, or after victims fell for phishing scams and gave up their credentials. Many of the victims were iPhone owners, and suspicion focused on Apple's iCloud sync and storage service. Password strength and reuse recently made news as hundreds of intimate photographs of celebrities were spread across the Internet. Security experts have long bemoaned poor password practices - people often reuse the same passwords, frequently choose obvious ones, and rarely make them strong enough - but have had few solutions to offer other than password managers. ![]() Prices of those managers range from free (LastPass) to $50 (1Password). Those include AgileBits' 1Password LastPass' same-named application, LastPass and Siber Systems' RoboForm. If Chrome does bundle a password maker, the browser would compete against a host of third-party password managers that tie to Google's browser as well as others. Apple first included iCloud Keychain last year with Mavericks. That browser's capability, however, comes courtesy of OS X's iCloud Keychain, an operating system feature that works only with Safari. The only other browser with an integrated password generator is Apple's Safari. At the earliest - assuming Google adds the generator to Chrome's "Dev" channel, its roughest-edged build in its development cycle, with the next iteration - the redesigned password maker would be unlikely to make it to Stable before the end of this year. Features can languish in Canary for months, and sometimes even disappear. It's unknown when, or even if, the revised password maker will make it into the production-quality version of Chrome, called "Stable" by Google. To enable the new password generator, users must type chrome://flags in the address bar, then choose "Enable" for both Enable-password-generation and Enable-save-password-bubble in Canary. Chromium, the open-source project that feeds code into Chrome itself, has had a password maker for more than two years - albeit one hidden behind a dense experimental setting screen - but the new version, with a new user interface (UI), has been promoted from Chromium to "Canary," the least-polished build.Ĭanary is similar in concept to Firefox's Nightly channel in that it is updated daily. ![]()
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