Quote from: digaran on March 19, 2023, 06:49:05 PM

You know what got to me? Saying ""motivated by recent events" and a straight forward list of guidance to stay anonymous in order to conduct criminal activity ^{[emphasis mine]} and pay a few bucks to a few shills so that they could defend your nefarious shenanigans for years"".
And the fact that someone else posted: "well too late Sad

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A sad fucking emoji, really? I guess we should keep our identities safe from criminals like you guys, because your behaviour is more scary than of that of black op unit members. What is wrong with you?

You must be really biased, otherwise I see no way how you can misinterpret my reference to recent events and the topic as a whole so badly.

It's also sad to see forum members buy into this 'privacy = criminal' misinformation campaign. Privacy should be a fundamental human right for everyone. It has nothing to do with criminal activity.. sigh. Next time you are going to tell me Bitcoin is only for criminals, because it is pseudonymous? We should tie our real identities to our Bitcoin address if we have nothing to hide? Why do you use new addresses for different payments, are you a criminal?

The Privacy Culture Manifesto

Quote from: Ratimov on March 19, 2023, 07:10:23 PM

should generally forget about everything that is convenient:
~snip~

This is a common fallacy. Limiting the amount of data you leak to the world is always good for your privacy; there is no black-or-white, no 'private' and 'unprivate'. The more you share, the lower your privacy; it is a gradient, a spectrum.

Quote from: Synchronice on March 19, 2023, 07:44:44 PM

I don't get it, why should you lost your account? Set a difficult password, write down, type a lot of times, a lot of times that will definitely imprint it into your muscle memory and then you'll write it down with your eyes closed.

Ask the millions of people resetting passwords every day.. Wink

This is also off-topic. Of course you don't need account recovery if you properly stored your password, I know. But things can go south (house burnt down, password manager hacked, whatever) and you may still have access to your Bitcoin keys. The staked address is just one extra layer of security.

Quote from: Synchronice on March 19, 2023, 07:44:44 PM

Quote from: n0nce on March 19, 2023, 04:42:24 PM

Stake your Bitcoin address for account recovery (since IP-based won't work now).

Doesn't that break rule number one?

Obviously don't use an address tied to your identity. You do know you can create 'sub-wallets' under a certain seed by using derivation paths and passphrases, for instance.

Quote from: Synchronice on March 19, 2023, 07:44:44 PM

Quote from: n0nce on March 19, 2023, 04:42:24 PM

Use Tor Browser to access Bitcointalk.

Tor without VPN is a bad idea, you should hide your Tor activity from your ISP. It's always good idea to use Qubes OS, a Linux distribution instead of Windows and combine it with good VPN and Tor. I'll use this moment and share a List of VPN Service Providers - 2023

A VPN is a central point of ~~failure~~ potential spying, so that's why I do not blanketly recommend using VPNs. They have their use cases, but may not be a good idea for everyone.

Quote from: dzungmobile on Today at 09:13:25 AM

Newbies may not know, Tor is available for Android too.

Download its Android version https://www.torproject.org/download/#android

Reference
Retention /Privacy info

Delete your PMs and backup them by your own
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5284282.msg55447742#msg55447742

Quote from: theymos on August 30, 2012, 11:59:29 PM

They're "personal messages", not "private messages". Wink

Thanks, adding this to OP!

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 09:40:42 AM

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I have a lot of different passwords, strong ones with a combination of random characters, uppercases, numbers and special characters. I memorize them, type them regularly very frequently

I only remember a few passwords, but I use hundreds of different ones. Most of them look like "(f#L!{p[oKGzz[2aV$'[P6!n$", and I'm not even going to try to remember them.

I agree with Loyce. You should have a different password for each account and they should look like that (no regular words, no dates etc.), absolutely. As people tend to have dozens to hundreds of accounts, if you can memorize all of your passwords, they are either:

Not distinct enough (i.e. not a fresh one per account)
Not independent enough (e.g. you have a 'master password' with numbers at the end or something like that)
Not random enough (e.g. you use real words)