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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   2503 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 23, 2026

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Idk if this is 'fun' but with the PHP stuff a bunch of folks on twitter are freaking out saying we all need to change our passwords freeze our credit get ready for apocalypse blah blah. I'm kind of in the nothing ever happens camp, but do people actually think the world is ending soon?

It's not the end of the world or even another Heartbleed-level incident, but between php2shell, node2shell, and some other lesser problems, it's probably worth making sure you have a decent password manager and set up token-based 2FA on major accounts like e-mails and banking information.

The extent any of these things are actively being exploited, or even can be meaningfully exploited, isn't massive yet, but there's probably going to be a long tail of stuff that either wasn't updated or was updated poorly.

Hmmm is a password manager much better than a browser password thing? My cybersecurity friends said they were about equivalent.

KeePassXC is what I use and there’s a corresponding Firefox extension for it as well. Local storage eliminates the entire attack surface of having your vault online. I’m always wary of having the browser directly store my passwords. And if you have MFA/2FA enabled where it’s available, doesn’t even matter if they compromise your password (though you should still rotate it).

What if your computer dies though??? Don't you lose all your passwords???

If you never back up anything and your stuff dies and can’t be recovered then you lose it all.

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