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Originally posted by Rightwire:

I have been approached several times in the last year by profiles that contain American names but pictures of young Chinese women. They all claim to hold high level positions VP, EVP, COO, CEO of large companies

One of my wife's clients was contacted by one of these. We laughed. He knows it's some sort of scam but he hasn't yet figured out just what it is, so for now, he's sort of playing along without divulging any significant information, to see if he can figure out what "her" ploy is.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

I'm not sure you understand exactly how most of these actually work now. Even in the worst case of someone getting ahold of your encrypted password file (like the most recent LastPass hack) using a effective master password strategy yields an estimated time to brute force break that of centuries. They don't store your actual master password in their system.

Agreed.

I use an online password manager. My "master" password is a 20-digit string of gibberish that I have memorized.

For non-critical websites, I use a routine password system I have memorized. But, for financial and other important sites, I use a 24 random character password generated by the password manager and 2FA.

It can be a PITA, but it was a life-saver when some leftist dirtbags tried to hack my bank accounts after I gave them a hard time on Twitter back during the BLM riots.