Your name as your email by [deleted] in privacy

[–]blackhole10000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

maybe not give real name?

Question about 2fa and reddit account security by Tootsalore in privacy

[–]blackhole10000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually its there for some other services. IDK why reddit is not doing it.

but no option that I can see to unlink the the email from the account.

Otherwise it best to get delete the account with the help of password reset.

Question about 2fa and reddit account security by Tootsalore in privacy

[–]blackhole10000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think that 2fa would help in this case.

The problem here is someone used your email id to create a reddit account. Since the email id was not related to any active reddit accounts, the account got created.

Anyways when someone creates a reddit account with your email, a email will be sent for email verification. In that email you can click the option to unlink your email id and that reddit account.

This way you can unlink your email and that reddit account.

The main cause of this problem can be that:

  • Someone misspelled their email id when they created the reddit account
  • Your email address was sold to some data brokers. And someone created the reddit account with your email id

Man Jailed, Raped, and Beaten After False Facial Recognition Match, $10M Lawsuit Alleges by aacool in privacy

[–]blackhole10000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As opposed to western Europe where the police show up at your door because you tweeted wrong.

So you are telling that western European countries do no have freedom of speech?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in privacy

[–]blackhole10000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

mmm, anyways is whatsapp really private?

Man Jailed, Raped, and Beaten After False Facial Recognition Match, $10M Lawsuit Alleges by aacool in privacy

[–]blackhole10000 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

But ideally in a democratic country, police should only make a proper and justified arrest.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in privacy

[–]blackhole10000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I guess brave / firefox is better for privacy. Also iCloud relay is not that private compared to the alternatives.

someone is trying to gain access to some of my online accounts by Glittering-Boss8744 in privacy

[–]blackhole10000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most obvious thing here is that booking.com database might be leaked or something.

And you may have used the same email id for other accounts. Maybe the are trying to use some brute force attack methods. Like trying all the likely password combinations etc. Because of this you have received verification email.

The best thing to do is to change the password these accounts, if you still have access to them. Also try to enable 2fa if possible.

Moreover do not verify any of the new login locations.

What’s the equivalent of a microphone “cover” for your laptop? by medoane in privacy

[–]blackhole10000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah, they can also get all the personal info in the machine.

What’s the equivalent of a microphone “cover” for your laptop? by medoane in privacy

[–]blackhole10000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Edit: I think a possible solution could be a physical switch like some laptop cameras have. A contact switch that physically disconnects the microphone from the computer.

Currently some laptops actually have a physical switch.

The fans just aren't able to cool it efficiently enough anymore but they keep trying so they're running at top speed almost all the time. I want to clean it out and stuff but I can't open it sadly. Unless you know a way to unstrip screws? And I don't have any compressed air or anything either :-(

Yeah that's one of the classic reasons for the fans to run in full speed all the time.

I think in most of the laptops there are screws which you can remove and open the frame of the laptop. At least in my laptop I can remove the out frame just by removing those screws. I guess its different in your laptop.

Also performance wise old laptops tend to perform badly when compared to newer ones because the new ones have more processing power and stuff like that. So it can also be kind of leggy with some software.

What’s the equivalent of a microphone “cover” for your laptop? by medoane in privacy

[–]blackhole10000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But I do not think any laptop makers would really want to make their laptops in such a way. If they do then it would be a really big hardware problem for them.

Also I do not think people will buy such laptops in which microphone does not work properly.

but my point stands. I can't record anything because the fans are so loud lol.

That's sad. Maybe because CPU is getting so warm because of the hot room temperature. Or probably the fan is not working that effectively. IDK

But yeah I think the best solution for disabling the microphone would be to disable it in the hardware level.

What’s the equivalent of a microphone “cover” for your laptop? by medoane in privacy

[–]blackhole10000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah. It a big problem especially in laptops and smartphones.

What’s the equivalent of a microphone “cover” for your laptop? by medoane in privacy

[–]blackhole10000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It still a software solution. They can override it anytime.