I am doing a purge on all of my computers and accounts trying to lock down all of my accounts. I in college for programming and thought getting into the habit of making sure everything I do is at least some what secure. I in the process of switching to Linux as well and thought it would be a good time to clean up all my accounts and passwords.
What suggestion do you have to do this.
I am thinking of using keepass but have no idea how I can sync the database across different devices securely. I was thinking about using google drive/dropbox and using triggers to save a local copy and a copy in google drives/drobox, but that seems pretty non secure. The other idea I had is also pretty non secure, but sound like a good project and that is to take one of my old laptop/desktops and turn it in to a NAS (not sure how possible that really is pretty low spec computers).
Is there away to reset my google accounts back to the day i made them(i know google still has the data, but I just want to start fresh with settings).
What is a good way to consolidate all of my email addresses, I have a lot of emails i do not use, but i keep up with though all different places is there a way i can drop them all and just forward important emails, say password resets for old accounts associated with the emails?
What is a good email service other than google. I like google over all I am not extremely caring about what data google collects (as long as it's not my desktop a desktop is sacred place in my current option the google data is subject to change tho).
I am also working on the transition to open-source software where ever I can that doesn't inhibit my workflow. Meaning I really like GIMP, but I used Photoshop for years just now getting back into it really missed it, so sadly Photoshop is staying. I thinking of switching to Firefox, I used it years ago, but last time i used it, it felt terrible, it crashed on repeat and quit responding every couple of minutes. I think it has to do with where when one tab dies in Firefox the entire browser does, but i could be wrong.
Any other suggestions for security? I know no one or no thing is completely secure, but making it hard is at least is a deterrent.
You could use any method to sync. There's a few others like syncthing, or similar. You could setup a nextcloud server if you wanted to host everything yourself. (but with that comes more management).
Consider your requirements. What are you protecting from, changes are dropbox or google drive is probably fine for syncing your keepass file.
keepass is decent, pass as well if you want something more minimal.
Stop using them?
For your google account just go through the sercurity stuff and check its they way you want.
Also get 2FA, get a yubikey or something similar if you want it, or use a TOTP application on your phone. Or both.
I use mailbox.org. I essentially have unlimited addressess that i filter when they come in. Theres a few other good ones as well.
Get over it and ditch photoshop what are you missing? Use a combination of GIMP and Krita
New firefox versions split tabs, its never been unstable for me for years.
May do this, will have to look into it and learn about it. First time I have heard of it.
May just use this seems like it will be easy to set up and should be good enough.
Will look into pass.
That dose fix the problem i guess.
I already have this in place for most of my accounts.
will look into mailbox.org
Not missing anything like tools or function(that i know of). I am just staring to really learn it again (had classes 5 or 6 years ago remember almost nothing) it seem like there are a shit ton of Photoshop tutorials and not meany high quality GIMP or Krira.
Last time i used it was like 2011ish so I will look back into it. Does it have a way to sync things accosted computer like tabs or bookmarks?
I use keepassX synced over dropbox. There's an iphone app that can open the password files, and you can use dropbox to get them onto the phone, which is really important if you need to sign into university computers etc. I also use 2FA whenever I can. I don't use the password manager for my desktop login, however, since remembering a 16-character random string is a bit of a push. My method for human-memorable passwords is to take 2 or 3 uncommon words, and insert special characters and random caps into the middle of the words. My research tells me this defeats dictionary attacks.
Yeah that is really only problem i have had with using keepass(have used it just haven't got sync working wasn't to clear about that) is after having a really long password is using it in other places. I had to explain to the testing center person at my college that i wasn't trying to use my phone to cheat, but to login.
It was Linux version of Keepass, though now is on everything from memory. I use it in my Linux boot and share the same database with Keepass on the windows boot.
I use Syncthing for sharing my stuff between my own devices, including my Keepass database.
Syncthing has phone apps, I would set it to only run when active, as have heard stories of data getting consumed on mobile plan otherwise. I don't bother, I just try and set up logins when ta home near one of my other devices. Doesn't always work, but meh.
Yeah I remember agonizing between Keepass and KPX. They use the same file format (kdbx), and I bet there's a bunch of borrowed code in X. They're probably interchangeable, but I never tried vanilla KP.
Funny story: by second semester, I had had to sign in with my random-char password so many times that I ended up memorizing it. I was rocking probably the best password on campus until IT made everyone change their passwords. In retrospect, it wasn't worth it.
what are you missing? Use a combination of GIMP and Krita