Got to love ignorant hot tapes based on article headings.
That’s… Literally just a long password.
I assumed you were talking about a private key as in cryptographic private key, where your data is encrypted on the remote server and your private key is required for it to be decrypted and for you to use it.
If you just talking about something to get into an SSH key then all that is is a longer password.
It should be $0 because this was a credential stuffing attack (Using breached passwords people reused), and affected people who knowingly shared their data with other people.
23&me didn’t leak data, they didn’t have any database breaches, their infrastructure wasn’t compromised due to negligence…etc The majority share of negligence is in the users here.
Yes, they should have MFA, but also no, most sites and services don’t force you to use MFA to begin with, and that’s not a regulatory requirement anyways.
This is, for the most part, the fault of the folks using terrible security practices such as refusing passwords and sharing their data with other users. And this is a shitty precedent to set where the technical reasons for this event are thrown out the window in favor of the politics of it.
That’s literally just a long password that you can never recover your data from when you inevitably lose or forget it (remember we’re talking about the majority of users here who do not use password managers).
Custom launchers have their own issues. I’ve tried them such as Nova launcher and I really just don’t like the experience.
Yeah but this requires you to use an entirely different launcher which has its own caveats…
You can if you are in the EU.
Google just says fuck you to everyone else because they get away with anti-competitive practices.
For a huge number of phones it’s a requirement because Google and Android do not allow you to customize or change this aspect of the device.
Unless you’re in the European Union in which you get the right to.
Fuck Google.
If only we had a choice to… You know… Not use the stupid thing
Unfortunately that right is only reserved for EU Citizens.
Google needs to be broken up.
It’s absolutely bonkers.
There’s so many people here that fight against their own interests by letting perfect be the enemy of good.