Worth being honest: you can deploy 2FA on every service, use a vault, audit your password hygiene.

[wiggwigg@infosec.exchange]

Worth being honest: you can deploy 2FA on every service, use a vault, audit your password hygiene. All worth doing. None of it reaches the day your cousin saves you under your full name and grants a social application access to her contacts. Your name and number land in that application's database, indefinitely.

Lemmy thread sums it up: "The hardest thing about maintaining ur online privacy are the people around you." Around 250 upvotes.
https://lemmy.ml/post/46929780

The pragmatic fix: separate phone numbers per context. Family gets one, professional services gets another, random online stuff gets a third. A leak in one stays in one.

https://wiggwigg.ca/en/use-cases/privacy/

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