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Adam Katz
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What are ssh-keygen best practices?

84 votes
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New Hires get phishing emails very quickly - Reasoning and how to stop

68 votes
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Password rules: Should I disallow "leetspeak" dictionary passwords like XKCD's Tr0ub4dor&3

64 votes

Is it safe to store account credentials in an Excel sheet protected with a password?

62 votes

Why use random characters in passwords?

41 votes

How to prove my Gmail has been hacked?

27 votes

Reply to potentially spoofed email

26 votes

Is email scraping still a thing for spammers

22 votes

Why is my internal IP address (private) visible from the Internet?

22 votes

What is the purpose of these weird non-spam emails?

20 votes
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Does it really improve a password if at least one character of each group (a-z,A-Z,0-9) is included?

15 votes
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Could antivirus programs not just scan all files upon creation?

14 votes

What is the purpose of a targeted email without any meaningful content?

13 votes

What is the point of gibberish spam

10 votes

Can a website steal passwords saved in my browser?

10 votes

Why are passwords generated by a password generator a complicated mix of letters and numbers instead of a long phrase?

10 votes
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Can DMARC's SPF alignment be spoofed?

8 votes
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Why removing just one letter form passwords makes it 20x easier to break according to zxcvbn test

7 votes

Why are PIN codes usually of even length (4 or 6)?

7 votes

What to include in emails to make them acceptable to email servers?

6 votes

How are spammers using LinkedIn "http://linkedin.com/slink?code=..." URLs?

6 votes

Password rules: Should I disallow "leetspeak" dictionary passwords like XKCD's Tr0ub4dor&3

5 votes

Running SSH on a different port vs adding the port number to a password

5 votes
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Does Mozilla Thunderbird leak any personally identifying data?

4 votes

What are the dangers of a mailto link?

4 votes

Why can't spoofed caller ID's be identified?

4 votes
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Weird character sequence in email subject

4 votes

When should user invite links (tokens) expire?

4 votes

Storing a user's password in a retrievable manner

4 votes

Hashcash, is this really used?

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