#same with changing emails!
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So I know a lot of you have seen Ms.demeanor’s post about passwords and how you should have a password manager. And you 100% should. But let’s say you can’t have one for some reason, or you’re trying to help someone who can’t have one. I have developed hmmm a method that allows you to use fewer passwords while also keeping everything safe.
Sorting
So you need to sort all your apps, accounts, etc into at least 3 different categories based on how screwed you'd be if a hacker got into that account.
Level 1
These are low threat level accounts and generally accounts where you were forced to make an account for a one time thing. Like for example you wanted to download a knitting pattern but they forced you to make an account. These accounts do not matter. If a hacker gets in it should have the same impact as someone picking up a penny found on the ground near your house. You could put streaming sites in this category if you wish. Maybe also your wifi password.
Level 2
These accounts are ones that you use often but that won't ruin you financially if someone gets into them. This should contain stuff like social media, maybe streaming, and maybe your phone bill if you're feeling spicy. It is very important that social media passwords be different from the highest level of security passwords. Social media passwords are more likely to be shared with people or could be stolen like the fb data scrape from years ago.
This is also where you'd probably include anything school related if you're still in school: blackboard, quizlet, grade book, etc. Or work related: email, slack, etc. You could also make a separate level just for school/work related accounts.
Level 3
This is the oh-i'm-absolutely-fucked level if someone got into your account. This is like if someone found the code for a safe in your bedroom. This is anything that contains sensitive info: medical, SSN, etc. Or deals with money. This is the level for bank accounts, taxes, government websites, paypal/cashapp, loans, etc.
I go back and forth about whether or not I would include email in this level. Especially if you're using gmail which is just sooooo great at not stealing your data. But in the end, with access to your email account, someone can reset passwords on all your shit (which is why you should have multiple emails as well).
Creating Passwords
Now you need to create a password for each level, which you can do using an anchor point. Luckily for you, you are on the shipping-AU-fandom website so it'll be easier. I'm gonna use supernatural as an anchor point. You can of course use different fandoms/ships for each level (I recommend this)
Level 1
This should be a simple easy to type, easy to remember password. It should contain at least numbers and letters with maybe an exclamation mark. This can contain words from the dictionary. Since this is a basic password, use something you think is basic and then the year it was invented or the year you really noticed it. It should be two words so you can get at least two capital letters.
For example, I think spn fans are pretty basic (i'm allowed to say this, I used to be one) and I think they started becoming A Thing in 2012 so for this level the password would be SPNGirlie2012
Level 2
This is where we get more tricky and want to add in words that aren't in the dictionary. We want to include numbers AND symbols.
Let's go with the beloathed ship of this website - Destiel - which is not a word in the dictionary. And then an AU you have seen that then stuck in your brain. Then the year you saw it or got into it or it was created.
For example, the idea of destiel being news anchors saying the news in the i love you meme is hilarious to me. So we have Anchor!Destiel2023 but that's still a bit too comprehensible soooo Anch0r!De$tiel and changing the number to a different year than the current one so 08 to represent when that angel first arrived and later doomed this website to being incomprehensible :)
Level 3
This should not contain recognizable words. If someone reads it they should be SO confused. This is where you use very niche AUs that get their own names. You use quotes that crushed you or lyrics from that one AMV that is stuck in your head at the moment. Very important, it should make people cry if they were told to type it in on a tv screen with a remote.
If you go the AU route it should be something like oh Sam was being too bitchy so he got cursed into a cabbage and has to learn how to become nice so it's called the Cabitch AU. Then we spice it up with some numbers and symbols. (@B1tch!$am!@U5 (CaBitch!Sam!AU5) and a number at the end maybe signifying how many of you even know about this au in the first place.
Or you can go the quote/lyrics route. Which follows recommendation of another tumblr post (also ms.demeanor?) Let's use the infamous destiel meeting quote "I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition."
so you take the first letter of each word = ITOWGYTARYFP
make 'the' 'and' 'from' lowercase = ItOWGYTaRYfP
substitute letters = |t0WGY7aRYfP
Add in a significant number (page, episode, timestamp, etc) = |t0WGY7aRYfP_4.01
And tada you have a password that saw would use in a saw trap with an apple tv remote.
And there you have it, how to sort and make your account passwords safe in technically 6 easy steps. I know there are a lot of you who use the same password for everything or bemoan your difficulties with remembering passwords. But like data protection is SO important, y'all don't realize just how much can be dug up with the simplest of information. I leave you with this horror story that made me make this post.
So my friend was getting harassed over text message by an unknown number. She thought it was her shitty ex bf so she decided to do some digging. First she went on her fb to see if he had his phone number public, but because she blocked him she couldn't see it. But you see dear reader, he gave her his fb password while they were dating. Friends, they broke up over FIVE YEARS AGO. For shits and giggles she tried to log in and WHOOPS IT WORKED! She couldn't find his phone number and that was going to be the end of it, but she got more texts for yet another number so she investigated more.
She was able to log into his email attached to his FB, where she was able to you know, actually read his emails. Turns out one of his doctors was NOT practicing proper patient confidentiality because he wrote an email with the guy's MENTAL ILLNESS DIAGNOSIS! Which my friend was able to see! She also found his SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER!
If you aren't American, that means she could take out a loan in his name no questions asked. She could have ruined his credit score. Oh what's that? That's right! He used the same email and password for his BANK ACCOUNT! and turns out his credit was already bad. She could have transferred all his MONEY to her!!!! She dated him for a while, if there were security questions, she probably would have known them.
So because this guy gave an 18 year old his fb password, 7 years ago, his ex (who hates him btw) found out his SSN, his diagnoses, his phone number, AND his bank account info. Thankfully she's not a shitty person and doesn't hate him enough to ruin his life 5 years after they broke up, but like she could have! She could have left his life in ruins!!!!!!!
Which is why I made this post.
don't use the same password for everything
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT KEEP THE SAME PASSWORDS AFTER YOU HAVE A MESSY BREAK UP?!?!??!?!?!?!
The end, hope this helps, change your passwords.
#passwords#data protection#password security#what not to do after a messy break up#what TO do to protect yourself online#internet safety#why your tumblr password should not be the same as your bank password#unfortunately schools today do NOT teach internet safety and if they do they do a truly awful job of it#also you should switch things up from what I wrote#i tried to show the different areas of flexibility#It is so important that you treat passwords like a key to a locked door#if you have a bad break up change your fucking locks#I will admit I haven't historically used the best passwords cuz again you don't get taught this#Oh i also recommend changing your passwords after each like big change? Like if you finish with school or a job#it's just an easy way to schedule maintenance on your passwords and purge old accounts#same with changing emails!#mine
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university.. university leave me alone
#heres the situation: for my cognitive literary studies class (quite fun) we had to pick primary material and a cognitive angle to analyse it#from. and the deadline was coming up and i who have been thinking very intensely about robots for the last half a year picked#yeah you guessed it. fucking PIERS PLOWMAN. which is not fun for me but i panicked about the deadline#so now i have to do something about piers plowman and its cognitive literary properties#and im in hell this is hell i have been extremely stressed about piers plowman for a month. to the point where ive been in physical pain#AND I CANNOT. THINK OF ANYTHING. ABOUT PIERS PLOWMAN.#and the teacher for that class is so nice and chill and she was like you can pick anything at all. and i went with piers plowman#like it's interesting but from what COGNITIVE angle can i approach piers plowman.#ive been thinking about saying exactly this that piers plowman is more for historical linguists and theologists than narratologists but im#also positive plenty of scholars read piers plowman for the plot#so then i thought about the characters and whether you can Connect with them and whether they help you Immerse yourself in the story and#other terminology i learned in cognitive literary studies class.#theyre allegorical and very 1 dimensional and there could be something about whether we from 2024 understand them in the same way#people from the 14th century did. like this was what i put in my proposal when i made it#but now i actually have to make the slides and use cognitive literary papers for this and it's just not going at all. i cant do it.#i cant do anything i cant enjoy the daylight and the warmer weather i cant think about anything other than im not making progress on this#and it's bad for me!! it's bad for my health i feel bad. why did i go with piers plowman why did i not pick watership down#my post#i have plenty to say about watership downm cognitively.#also about old possums book of practical cats#maybe i could email her and tell her id like to change it.. no#ive also been reading the tombs of atuan which is incredible
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only problem with fanfiction is the. the. no fanfiction for it. how am i supposed to read 400 of the same story when you did something insane and transformative that changed me as a person and the only work inspired by it is a deleted scene written by you where they went to the mall in-between the scene i reread instead of therapy and the scene where i cried so hard that i just stopped reading and went to bed at 8pm. what then
#having a normal night (saw a fanfiction i read 3 yrs ago + cant reread it because its not the same river and im not the same man)#edited for consistent pov#i need fanfiction to come with community labels like steam and one of them is just like. 'this altered the course of my life'#and you get an email about it 5 years after you first read it to rate if it Changed You
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Occasionally we debate on illustrating random bits from our Discord PMs that we find really funny but then we remember that we're, like, the physical embodiment of the "ace that makes sex jokes" stereotype and phrases like "iterator dick discourse" would both be remarkably difficult to illustrate and probably require us drawing something at least somewhat NSFW (we do not particularly care to learn how to draw this)
#we speak#realistically it would just require more specific tinkering w what we choose to include but we still think the dickscourse is funny#it's the image of a bunch of ancient monks gathering around to very seriously debate decisions with the upcoming iterator project#and then the whiteboard is just like. “ITERATORS: dick or no?”#(vital context: we got hung up on the semantics of people giving their iterators actual genitals in smut)#(as the existence of that on the puppet implies that someone had to design and manufacture and ship that shit for the finished iterator)#(and the general aura of the ancients instantly catapults this to fucking hilarious because it implies job titles like “dick director”)#(and work emails about iterator pipe written in the exact same cadence as all of the ancient correspondence we see in-game)#we dont think a lot of people designing iterators really Get the sheer amount of semantics and construction and effort and PEOPLE#that go into a project of the iterator's scale#especially when hundreds of them have been constructed! theres gonna be a whole ass trail of design changes and iterations!#youre gonna have hundreds of years of iterators being designed and technology coming into fashion and out of fashion#and things being integrated and things becoming obsolete and things being more or less practical as time goes on!#you cant really say that All Iterators have a trait because the sheer scale and timeframe theyre built on means thats near impossible#our windows 95 writing computer has different construction and deeply different design to a laptop from 2023#despite them technically being the same type of technology#you expect tech developed hundreds of years apart to be The Same? absolutely not. theres gonna be eight trillion weird design quirks#accumulated both in the construction process and in the continued design refinement and improvement stage#...which is to say that you can and should write what u want but if youre gonna include pleasure inducing wires then we want like#a 40k word essay on how this got into the design how it wound up in future designs what function the wires perform that makes them Like Tha#and so on and so forth#we admire the confidence and ingenuity of the people who want to fuck the robots but we cannot get into their fantasies with good conscienc#we live in the same house as an engineer who manages largescale construction and we also know too much about designing technology#...we should segment these tags into a separate post or something. we've gone WAY off-topic.
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Listen, Cam may have the casuals, but what he doesn’t have are former live feeders with nothing but time
#I’ve already voted at least ten times and I’m just doing it when the link pops up on my Twitter#I’m just using the same different email but just changing the dot com to other things#bb25#I’m team vote for who you like but I’m mostly doing America and sprinkling in some Cory and Cirie in there too
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i think every time an app makes its theme default low/no contrast their ceo should have to come fist fight me first
#Zilly rambles#why would you make the options bar the same exact color as the fucking emails im goijng to kill you#'customization' is now. changing the color of the top tab. thanks this looks like mush to me now
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...it should NOT be this hard to get in touch with your power company wtf
#TWO HOUR WAIT BY CALL#and the automated chat is utterly worthless#I just need to change my address to the new place which I did but the confirmation email I got didn't actually include the new address#and I need to show proof to my new landlord before I can actually sign the lease#and now I'm worried since I can't find confirmation on the site at all that it didn't go thru properly#I filled out the email form MONDAY and was supposed to have gotten an answer in 2 business days but NOPE#so I sent another one and got the exact same automated response saying they'll get in touch#i hate monopolies why is this the only power company in the city it's so shite and people always complain about it
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so uh.... i checked the tag of what was going to be my new url and there's. theres a post from some random blog about a watch?????
alas, democracy dies and arcknght wins. f in the chat besties.
#ooc.exe#dan vs vc: i don't CARE how cool the url is ; i am NOT using the same tag as a spam bot!#i'm also a little heated because it took me 24 hours to get that url to my new blog just to find THIS OUT#feels like someone's already in my new home /lhj#i'll just change the email ITS FINE ITS FINE#i'll let you guys know when its done JGKLdf
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😓🤬
#I fucking hate doctors and the medical field so much#I was FINALLY starting to get on the right path#called a php place and think I know where I’m going#have a therapist I’ve been talking to here and there#I’ve been trying to get into a psych evaluation right?#called 5+ places the other day and they all had 5-8 month long waitlists#I need to get most of this shit done before June#so that ain’t gonna work#called the psych place my doctor referred me to#(would like to add that I did call this same place right after my doctor visit a few months ago and they never called me back)#so I had no hope they were even going to pick up#I was shocked when I heard someone picked up and even more shocked when they said they had an opening for fucking Wednesday#literally I felt like everything was finally aligning#I scheduled the appt for a zoom meeting at 10am#then I get a bunch of random emails saying my appointment was changed#now I have two different appointments- Wednesday and Thursday both at 9am and with a totally different doctor#so I was like???? ok guessing something happened but I didn’t think much of it - called to figure out what day it actually is#when I called to confirm they told me that I can’t be tested until I get an internal referral#I told them I did get a referral???#they looked at it and it was just a referral for depression not adhd or anything else#but then when they looked more into it they found in the notes she wanted me to get adhd testing#SO she just forgot to add it to my referral#I get people make mistakes#but this is like the 4th time something like this has happened lately#I’m just trying to be healthy#and it is fucking RIDICULOUS how incredibly hard it is to find the proper help#also the girl yesterday when I made the appointment said yes to all my questions but sounds like she doesn’t know what she’s talking about#was like ‘does this test for adhd and autism?’ ‘yeah for sure’ and then I find out they don’t even test for autism#so now I have to find a totally different person to either do both or just test for autism#either way I feel incredibly disheartened and overwhelmed and sad
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when retired boomers invited you to a passé dive your ex-boyfriend used to frequent
#personal#peanut shells all over the floor#the SAME DAY#I have plans#I have laundry to do#I have to shower#I have a writing project to do#I have an important email to send#I have to send an invoice#I need to change my sheets#I'm behind on reading#also I got about 5 hours of sleep because of a nightmare that woke me up at 5am#haven't even had breakfast yet and it's noon
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so pinterest…
has decided to completely knock off my side accounts that I like to switch between, including my Now And Then account, and because I have that one private and away from searches I can no longer access it.
#I am about to McFreakin’ Lose It#I have way too much on there to lose at this point#I used the same email on the account as my main#my mistake and no one else’s#but every time I've tried to access it to change the email it has FAILED#I just#aftgbyhfjginlokmhmkn#now and then ramblings#cuz why not lol#+as told by ginger+
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friendly reminder to change your passwords regularly
#at least two of my accounts (not tumblr) got hacked#they aren't even connected to the same email or anything#I don't know what happened lol...#anyway psa#gonna be changing all my passwords this weekend#kly.txt
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you CUNT. what the fuck.
#this is abt my new supervisor at work#i changed teams a couple weeks back cuz i didnt have enough to do anymore on my old team#and my new team supervisor??? seemed nice enough but shes literally just being a dick for no reason#shes just being fucking passive aggressive as shit#i sent her an email last week like 'hey im outta stuff to work on already n i just wanted to see if there was anything else i could do?'#esp bc. i literally transferred over bc of insufficient workload yk?#and she gets back to me being like 'well there is actually lots to do but since you havent been trained yet you cant do it'#and then proceeded to Not tell me who i should talk to abt doing said training#and there was a general vibe of 'its YOUR fault that you dont have enough work to do bc of your limited availability' like...#and TODAY????? today i clocked in n checked my email and she had#1) re-assigned work that i ALREADY FUCKING DID to another person on a flimsy fucking excuse#(she said that all emails to a given client should be from the same person so the client doesnt get confused????)#and 2) she sent me ANOTHER email being like#'umm you should have sent me an updated version of this draft with the issued invoice. why havent you done that already'#'also just fyi sweaty you have to actually track these matters until the email is sent. bc you are stupid and clearly dont know that'#'someone else handled while you were out bc you SUCK'#you wanna know why i didnt follow up??? bc i was OUT on monday (when the invoice was issued)#and it wasnt unplanned or anything. i communicated my planned absence HEAVILY in advance#and yet its still my fault that i like. didnt respond to emails that day?? bitch???#anyways. rip to me ig <3#whatever the fuck
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my toxic trait is that i will NOT return phone calls from people who left me voicemails... when i contacted THEM by EMAIL in the first place
#this goes out to jx nx you know who you are#me: emails hr department. hr department: leaves a voicemail on my phone. me: I EMAILED YOU BECAUSE I NEEDED STUFF IN WRITING#sure deanna! go ahead and leave a new voicemail every day! THIS IS NOT HOW I CHOOSE TO BE CONTACTED.#1. the cell service up here is.... nearly nonexistent!#2. xfinity makes you have a different account in different states! so when i cancelled my CO account and activated my NM account...#THEY CANCELLED MY FUCKING PHONE NUMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#my phone number that i used for job applications <3 my phone number that they said would stay the same even though the account changed <3#so i get voicemails at like 3am even though the person called me at 6pm and i couldn't call out on this phone except SOS
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bagged a trial shift at a new pub just for my manager to immediately put on facebook if anyone wants an extra shift on wednesday. he knows what im doing
#he said GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE RN#lmfaoooo the notif came through literally as i put the phone down i was like 😳😳😳#like that 'CONNOR' tiktok audio like no king im not doing anythinggg haha wdym#anyway im a bit annoyed that the first place to get back to me from my applications was this one#bc im pretty sure their pay is still minimum wage and also my cousin worked a trial shift there once#and not only did they not pay him but they also never called him back or even emailed to politely turn him down#literally just used him for free labour and that was that#word of warning from a very tired waitress if ur thinking about starting: always take trial shifts with a pinch of salt#if the trial shift is longer than 2 hours they really really should be paying you and if they dont the odds are you got mugged off#also the woman on the phone after i said i worked at the place i currently work at was like 'and do you still work there?' SHE KNOWS#and when i said yes she was like 'would you be willing to leave?' HOW CAN I BE TWO-TIMING BOTH OF YOU RN#LYING TO ONE JOB ABOUT SEEKING ANOTHER JOB LYING TO THE NEW JOB ABOUT LEAVING THE OLD ONE COME ON NOW#IM NOT BUILT FOR THESE LAYERS#but yeah summary here is i have a shift at my actual place on wednesday (thank god i havent had work in over a fucking WEEK)#and i have a trial shift at a new place where i'll most likely be offered a job. life is picking up#ALSO i have enough money to change my america flights bc basically something came up with that and i need to change my return flight#and i was originally rlly worried bc the change cost was £161 and that piled onto my current no-shifts stress was Not Fun#but ive been working a lot for my mum and i got paid for the shifts i HAVE done and it all kinda fell together anyway#the way everything is sorting itself today within the same HOUR yet ive been stressing about these things for days now#hella goes home#hella slaves to capitalism
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these 20+ universities/observatories i've emailed so far need to stop ghosting me and actually respond to my emails please i don't wanna be unemployed this summer
#what's the normal amount of time for researchers in academia to answer emails. asking for a friend#i've got one ongoing project proposal that sounds promising but i get anxious when they don't reply quickly#and one person who said they could host a summer intern except i messed up by emailing someone who works at the same place i worked last#summer when i thought they worked elsewhere. and i want to work in a different place for a change. so i kinda just ghosted them 💀💀#some people said to wait a few weeks before a definite response but i don't wanna waittttshfjlhjshösdhfö
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