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Hey #Firefox hackers! My credit card issuer, Chase, does something funky where its page won't load unless it's in the focused tab: in c/firefox@fedia.io

[–] steve_zeke@freeradical.zone 4 points 6 days ago

@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Not sure this is related but since I started using CanvasBlocker addon, they make me use MFA every time with 8 digit pin and pw again. It’s as if part of their auth process is digital fingerprinting. Caveat: I’m not a hacker or expert (in case it wasn’t obvious). Why not just wait for page load? Shpilkes?

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/shpilkes

Valedictorian told to stay home after making pro-Palestinian remarks in grad speech | CBC News (2025-06-16) in c/palestine@lemmy.ml

[–] steve_zeke@freeradical.zone 4 points 1 month ago

@adachika192 @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

Unrelated to the story, it’s telling and journalistically incompetent for CBC to still refer to the genocide as the “Israel-Hamas” war.

Law Enforcement Can Break 77% Of ‘Three Random Word’ Passwords in c/cybersecurity@fedia.io

[–] steve_zeke@freeradical.zone 3 points 2 months ago

@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org
I use #diceware random words and have never used as few as 3 so this doesn’t surprise me. The author advocates for using #passkeys but I have so far resisted that advice from him and others. Using a #password mgr with a browser extension, passkeys seem to be only a small increase in utility. Also don’t like the “black box” aspect of passkeys: what are they, where are they locally, how secure is this system. Happy to hear how I am wrong to be a passkey skeptic.