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It can only be drugs and/or nepotism and/or bank of mum and dad.
Sorry you’re right. I’m actually not across the matter enough to comment and have only heard the “autistic kid” part through like third hand knowledge.
Although everyone is on the spectrum somewhere, especially in the IT space.
But you’re right, the take away from this is I should learn about the topic better.
Backdoor? Even if it isn’t blatantly obvious - some autistic kid will notice a program runs 0.05 seconds slower and will work it out.
At the very least if you’re going to be backdooring your code you might as well add “back door goes here” to your PR so we can easily cut it out when the hard fork happens without the backdoor included.
Also
“Don’t you want to support the creators”
Yeah, preferably them rather than the majority share go to Spotify or Netflix.
- Password manager such as Bitwarden, generate long strong passwords for everything. 1a. SSO (By which I mean “log in with Google/Microsoft/Apple/Whatever”) nothing.
- Hardware keys, MFA on anything that doesn’t support one.
- Degoogle, de-megacorp.
VPN shouldn’t even be in the top 10. The benefits are dubious at best and the jury is still out on whether it makes you more of a target.
Multi factor authentication is about having multiple factors for authenticating you:
Something you know (like a password) Something you have (with you - a hardware key, smart card or token) Something you are (biometrics, fingerprint, faceid)
So the idea is that you’ll have two points of identification.
But if you have your TOTP token and your generated password in the same password manager - that’s effectively only one factor of authentication.
If you’ve gotten this far you should probably consider a WebAuthn key like the Ubikey to be the “something you have”.
Just run your own Jellyfin