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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by PrivacyWayFinder@lemmy.world to c/movies@lemmy.world
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DuckDuckGo starting to give more "personal" search results in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] PrivacyWayFinder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Search query with possible parameters included from their website.

Privacy-friendly whatsapp in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] PrivacyWayFinder@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I am using Launch Chat. As it got more other messenger apps(Telegram, Signal). So far so good, chat with people without allowing contacts permission to messengers like whatsapp.

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Does VPNs even work against Big Brother apps? Using one really protects our privacy? (masking our location) (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by PrivacyWayFinder@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I am currently using Proton VPN (free tier) which is set to Always-ON and Block Connections on disable.

Today while I am going through my Gmail security option, on the devices/sessions I found my real location mentioned over there. Even when I use desktop I always connect to VPN.

On this issue I got couple of doubts:

  • Is this because I am using a free tier VPN? so it's not functioning properly etc...
  • Else google fixed my location based on my previous location history? I used my google applications without VPN for many years, I am just learning & following privacy tips recently.
Why every TOTP app default uses SHA-1 hash encryption? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] PrivacyWayFinder@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

damn it.

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Why every TOTP app default uses SHA-1 hash encryption? (lemmy.world)
 

I use Aegis as my 2fa. Today on new token creation I observed that there's hash function set to SHA-1, later checked all my tokens and the result is same type of encryption used for all. So I have edited all my tokens to SHA-256 as a result my totp doesn't authenticate. Do I have to rescan my tokens for updating to SHA-256 or it doesn't work like that?

Security: SHA-1 < SHA-256 < SHA-512

Speed: SHA-1 > SHA-256 > SHA-512

My doubts are: Why can't we use SHA-256? Is it because TOTP requires less time so faster one(SHA-1) is chosen? Can we use SHA-256 for TOTPs?