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Security questions are evil because of social media “games” phishing for them

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/11

Via [Archive.is] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “what @AppSecBloke said… “, from:

I don’t normally do this but here goes:

First job STOP
Current job SENDING
Dream Job YOUR
Favorite food POTENTIAL
Favorite dog PASSWORDS
Favorite footwear OR
Favorite Chocolate bar MEMORABLE
Favorite Ice Cream DATA
Your Vehicle color TO
Favorite Holiday PEOPLE
Night owl or earlybird WHO
Favorite day of the week COLLECT
Tattoos THIS
Favourite colour INFORMATION
Do you like vegetables FOR
Do you wear glasses SOCIAL
Favourite season ENGINEERING

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Removing yourself from a twitter list means you have to temporarily block the user maintaining the list

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/07

Removing yourself from a list has been possible for a long time (since at least 2013) by blocking the list owner, then unblocking, but was only documented late 2019 in [WayBack] How to use Twitter Lists:

A Twitter List is a curated group of Twitter accounts. Create your own or subscribe to a List created by someone else to view a streamlined timeline.

…

How to remove yourself from a List

You can view which Lists you are a member of through your Lists tab. To remove yourself from a List you will need to block the creator of that List.

It was public knowledge though, for instance documented at [WayBack] How journalists can remove themselves from Twitter lists – & why it matters – Poynter, which also documents this:

How can I find out which Twitter lists I’m on?

When using Twitter on the web, click on lists. You will arrive at “Subscribed To.” Next to that heading, you’ll see “Member Of.” Click on it to see the Twitter lists that include you as a member. This list of lists is chronological starting at the bottom — the first list you see at the top will be the one that most recently added you.

For me this is twitter.com/jpluimers/lists/memberships

 

The same trick also works when you want to have someone un-follow you:

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Chrome: allow some URLs to “never sleep” (or hibernate/discard)

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/29

This option in Chrome has moved around a bit, so here is how it was in Version 89.0.4389.90 (Official Build) (64-bit) when I documented it.

  1. Browse to chrome://discards/
  2. Don’t be intimidated by the many rows and columns; only the rightmost 8 (at the time of writing) are interesting:

  3. Search for the URL (in my chase https://web.whatsapp.com/ , so I searched for whatsapp which you see as orange in the screenshots below) for which you want to ensure it will never sleep/hibernate (Chrome calls this “discardable”)

  4. Click Toggle under the checkmark ✔ so it changes into a cross ✘️ (so the URL will never be discarded, hence always stays awake)

Do this only for tabs that are not CPU/memory/traffic intensive

I got there via these posts:

When searching for discards, I found this post: [Wayback] How to Prevent Chrome from Reloading Tabs When You Switch to Them

Chrome has built-in memory management that causes inactive tabs to “sleep” as RAM is filled. When you click the tab again, it has to reload the page. It’s annoying.

–jeroen

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Cleaning up your Twitter timeline: run odd tweets through BotOMeter

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/27

To help my Twitter timeline clean I run odd messages through: [WayBack] Botometer® by OSoMe:

Botometer® (formerly BotOrNot) checks the activity of Twitter accounts and gives them a score based on how likely they are to be bots. Higher scores are more bot-like. Brought to you by the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe) at Indiana University.

Next to just analysing one account, it can also analyse the followers of friends of an account.

Note that you need to give Twitter Permissions to BotOMeter, which you can easily revoke from their site as well, see [WayBack] FAQ: Botometer® by OSoMe.

Next to be more versatile, I also found BotOMeter to be more precise than [WayBack] Bot Sentinel Dashboard ‹ Bot Sentinel:

Bot Sentinel is a free platform developed to automatically detect political trollbots and untrustworthy accounts. Bot Sentinel utilizes machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify and track disruptive Twitter users.

Quite a few are now on the mule or block list.

Note that both work better with English than with non-English language, but even with non-English, both are quite good.

A review is on [WayBack] A Review of Popular Bot Checkers – Unhack The Vote.

–jeroen

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If you change to a 2FA, then do not just mention the month, but also the year

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/22

[Wayback] Contact opnemen | Persoonsgebonden budget | SVB had this:

UX: 2FA needed as of October, but which year?

UX: 2FA needed as of October, but which year?

If you are going to introduce a change in a certain period of time, ensure you not just mention only a part of when it occurs: include at least year and month, possibly even day and time.

That way your users know if they still have some time left to setup 2FA, or won’t be able to logon without 2FA at all.

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Threader is dying: save your content as soon as possible

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/09

Luckily I only had two posts using Threader, as I today learned that it is dying really soon now, as per [Wayback/Archive] Threader – Good Twitter threads every day (emphasis and archival links mine):

As part of this acquisition, we’ll be shutting Threader down on December 15, 2021.

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We’ve [Wayback/Archive] recently built a similar reading experience at Twitter, which is now available as part of [Wayback/Archive] Twitter Blue.

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All of our users will be able to export their bookmarks from their settings in our iOS and web apps. Make sure to also download your PDF archives if you’d like to keep them.

Twitter Blue is paid and only available in very few countries and is part of Twitter, so quite useless for archival.

The alternatives [Archive] @ThreadReaderApp, [Archive] @WayBackMachine and [Archive] @ArchiveIs for the win (:

Bye bye [Archive] Threader (previously [Archive] @Threader_app), it was fun while it lasted.

––jeroen

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Some notes on forwardemail.net

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/01

Some notes, as I’m looking to a stable, simple to maintain email forwarding system that is also secure and – yes – can cost money.

I need to leave IT-infrastructure behind that is easy to maintain for my heirs.

Some links:

  • [Archive.is] mausdompteur 💉 on Twitter: “Email! Yes, Email. Need to Set Email for a domain, basically forward only. Has anyone ever heard of https://t.co/v29TbMXrrl? Is it good? Any alternatives I should consider?”
  • [Wayback] The Best Free Email Forwarding Service for Custom Domains | Forward Email

    The best open-source and free email forwarding service for custom domains. We do not keep logs nor store emails. We don’t track you. Unlimited aliases, catch-alls, wildcards, API access, and disposable addresses. Built-in support for DKIM, SRS, SPF, ARC, DMARC, and more. No credit card required.

  • [Wayback] FAQ | Forward Email has a truckload of information, but the main points for me are these:

    What is the max email size limit

    We default to a 50MB size limit, which includes content, headers, and attachments. Note that services such as Gmail and Outlook allow only 25MB size limit, and if you exceed the limit when sending to addresses at those providers you will receive an error message.

    An error with the proper response code is returned if the file size limit is exceeded.

    …

    What is the difference between Free and Enhanced Protection

    The Free plan requires you to use public DNS records to store your forwarding configuration. Anyone with a computer can lookup your forwarding configuration in a terminal if you are on the Free plan. Unlike the Free plan, the Enhanced Protection plan uses a cryptographically generated random string to store your forwarding configuration privately.

    Free Plan Enhanced Protection Plan
    forward-email=user@gmail.com forward-email-site-verification=m8d7o8K4Il
  • [Wayback] About | Forward Email with this very important point for me:

    Privacy

    We have a “zero tolerance policy” privacy policy, which states that we don’t store logs nor emails, and we don’t track users. Our statement clearly states that we do not collect nor store forwarded emails, metadata, server-side nor client-side logs, IP addresses, or browser information.

    Only an email address is required to create and configure the Enhanced Protection Plan, which hides DNS email alias information on the free plan through a managed and hosted service.

    User’s accounts, domains, and all related information can be permanently deleted at any time by the user.

  • [Wayback] Pricing | Forward Email (levels: free / enhanced protection / team / enterprise)

    Free email forwarding for domains with features including Custom Domain Email Forwarding, Disposable Addresses, Multiple Recipients, Wildcards, and more!

  • It’s open source too (written in JavaScript using Node.js), but running it requires you to keep up with versions and security: [Wayback/Archive.is] forwardemail/free-email-forwarding: The best free email forwarding for custom domains. Visit our website to get started (SMTP server)

–jeroen

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The horrors of HTML email where there CSS

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/16

[Archive.is] Kat Maddox on Twitter: “Who’s the CEO of emails I need to talk to him… “:

This is why dreamweaver still exists.

[Archive.is] Kat Maddox on Twitter: “You don’t need a time machine to go back to the past. You just need to try to write HTML in emails. If I have to nest one more table, I’ll have gone back far enough to be able to warn people about the dot com bubble. Fuck it. I’m writing this newsletter in markdown”

Markdown with an HTML generator actually is quite a good way to get HTML emails going.

Another route is [Wayback] Foundation for Emails | A Responsive Email Framework from ZURB.

Oh remember this: [Archive.is] StuAngel on Twitter: “rule of thumb “the mail clients are about 5 years behind in HTML support” – that was like 10 years ago and they have never gotten any better… https://t.co/lVAW5YCubm”

–jeroen

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Twitter search filter tricks to get a less confusing timeline

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/08

Some links for my link archive in the order I use them most to least:

  1. https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Areplies%20include%3Anativeretweets&src=recent_search_click
    • filters on filter:follows -filter:replies include:nativeretweets
  2. https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Areplies%20include%3Anativeretweets%20-filter%3Alinks&src=typed_query
    • filters on filter:follows -filter:replies include:nativeretweets -filter:links
  3. https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Areplies%20-filter%3Alinks&src=typed_query
    • filters on filter:follows -filter:replies -filter:links
  4. https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Areplies&src=typed_query
    • filters on filter:follows -filter:replies

via: [WayBack] Joe Sondow on Twitter: “Reminder that Twitter’s timeline is trash; saved searches are better. Try pasting one of these in twitter search, then save the search: filter:follows -filter:replies -filter:links filter:follows -filter:replies filter:follows -filter:replies include:nativeretweets”

–jeroen

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NTLM proxy authentication and Dropbox: need to try NTLMAPS and cntlm

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/01

Interesting:

Some corporate networks are behind HTTP proxy servers that use NTLM authentication. Dropbox currently doesn’t support this kind of proxy authentication. However, some users have reported some success using an intermediate proxy, such as [WayBack] NTLMAPS or [WayBack] cntlm, to get Dropbox running on their network.

This article explains steps on various systems to install proxies that support NTLM authentication: [WayBack] Allow Dropbox to Authenticate With a NTLM Proxy Server – The Unofficial Dropbox Wiki.

Need to try these. Maybe they work for Copy.com too (:

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