24 random letter upper and lower case, numbers and special characters. that is more than enough to stop brute force cracking. unless someones nuts and uses a server farm
He’s using a password manager (Keepass, in his case) probably with a long, randomly generated password for Reddit. This is a great cybersecurity practice.
Last count, i have well over 300 online accounts - and i don’t know the password for a single one of them, except for my main Google account and my password manager. It remembers all of them for me.
Once you’ve edited your posts, what does deleting the account accomplish? Or is it just a self control measure like cutting up your credit card used to be?
No matter who it is, if you’re no longer using a website or app of some kind, it’s best to permanently delete/disable your account. Before you do, scrub as much information as you can, such as deleting any credit card info or address/phone that’s on file. There’s a few reasons for this:
If your security choices (e.g. passwords/2fa) are not the best, someone may compromise your active account through normal means and impersonate you
Even if your security choices are very strong, at some point in the future the site might get compromised by more sophisticated attackers because either (a) the attackers get more sophisticated over time, or (b) the company responsible for account security gets lazier over time;
This is especially true if the site is eventually sold to a scammy company just trying to make a quick buck. And they all eventually get sold.
No matter who owns the company, at some point in the future your contact info will get used to try to market bullshit to you. If not them, then the data brokers they sell your info to.
Deleting the account blocks all of these problems (unless the company is particularly scummy, but what are you gonna do about it)
Got it. So if I never registered an email address or gave them a credit card and overwrote all my comments and used a randomly generated password then there’s basically no risk.
A soft delete is about the only sane way to handle this kind of information, to be honest. People already used the delete feature for harassment, but imagine if there was no way to see the deletions on Reddits side, a report of the harassment would mean nothing.
Yes, the right to be forgotten exists, but it’s much more in depth to create an account, harass someone in comments so it reaches their notifications, then request a deletion of the account. Vs just deleting the comment and doing it again and again.
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