Director Software Engineering | Digital Experiences - Membership | adidas Hype & CONFIRMED
I’ve been thinking about writing this for a while, and this week’s leak of 16 billion passwords, including Facebook and Instagram, finally pushed me to write about it. Every time a breach like this happens, I feel relieve I introduce in my day-to-day this system years ago that keeps me in control. It's not magic, takes a bit more time to organize my accounts, but it works: I use a custom domain for email aliases, unique passwords for every service, and, when possible, enable MFA. https://lnkd.in/dJJHQFdD
Chris K.
4mo
Nice post - a complete nightmare. I also have the delight to be responsible for old parents; young kids who click everywhere and the only thing I can advise is get an ‘internet credit card’ which has only what you are prepared to lose on. The scams are getting better the AI is going to make the broken English emails perfect replicas of the ‘company’ ones, so phishing is just going to happen. On a side note; educating them about passkeys has been my saviour and they are all on the Apple ecosystem is so that seems to be the current win.
This is such a cool, enlightening post Jorge Costa. I’m in the process of setting mine up now and discovered the Electronic Frontier Foundation while I was at it, which is also super interesting. Please post more like this for us mere mortals 👏👏👏
Such an important topic, thank you for sharing! Gmail +trick works so well for so many use cases.
Mário Carvalho
3mo
Been using the +trick for a while. It works really well. Maybe will migrate to custom domain!
Director Software Engineering | Digital Experiences - Membership | adidas Hype & CONFIRMED
4moGood callout on the passkeys CK. They are definitely the future, but yeah, adoption is still a bit all over the place and slowly being adopted by more services. And depending on the ecosystem you’re in, it can also be a nightmare to manage, but I really believe it will eventually be the norm.