Can't see how an independent developer would ever be able to do this. We need more independent things not less... this would be my concern.

Better legislation would be to force developers to at least allow people to run their own servers.

https://halupedia.com/people-that-downvote-are-weird

just skip it, don't include such function in social site, there is enough negativity in the world.

https://halupedia.com/biggest-small-thing

no rtf nothing needs to be fancy

a canonical .txt resource, is parseable and universal. Don't restrict your audience. For example:

If a repo has a .txt backup of some changelog it's therefore not tied to whatever platform.. The repo is a living project and memory.. don't assume anything: ( ie if for some reason your a/c is gone... that information is not lost its saved forever... )

usually if I must reference a pdf it means a browser.. And often I don't want a browser running..

So then you know that you have been rooted => If that fails to resolve it.

Reduce the number of vectors to know what you have to change asap. in this scenario you don't want to be guessing about how they did it.

The randomised gibberish just means you can rule out certain things. I can agree on part of what your saying but a string high entropy password, makes it harder to brute..

Many services don't really do that whole retries thing properly. So make it take as long as possible.

If you don't use a random gibberish your password can be cracked on any consumer device in a surprisingly short amount of time...

This way you can then focus on that a session token is probably how they got in.. It's the most common vector these days...

Making the password impossible to guess - how could that not be?

Since then you know you have a breach, as its randomised gibberish, if you then get the 2nd device asking " is this you trying to login " you can definitely know you are compromised....

I can't see your logic here, that isn't " theatre " ????

If you think that is theatre what is better then? Words and numbers.. easily brute forced.. Sorry can't agree.

Not to mention ; you would assume he should have more than one device linked to the account and then that adds another layer, since Google will ask you " is this you trying to logon ". <-- that is the only way to get Google to do the unrecognized flow you mention.

If you are suggesting it was exposed and he didn't immediately randomise all his passwords.. WORDS FAIL ME

It's all security 101 the irony is immense...

if the US government / FBI need someone to give some talks on how to do security ...

He doesn't strike me as the kinda person even using a local password manager; like keepass.

Somebody needs to find this out.

I doubt it was gmail support... surely it could not be via his phone sim, and if he didn't have two factor on; That would be so funny.

I'm tempted to check out the dark web or the telegram, but i'd rather not do either of those things.

If I/you was working with JSON of that size where this was important, id say you probably need to stop using JSON! and some other binary or structured format... so long as it has some kinda tooling support.

And further if you are doing important stuff in the CLI needing a big chain of commands, you probably should be programming something to do it anyways...

that's even before we get to the whole JSON isn't really a good data format whatsoever... and there are many better ways. The old ways or the new ways. One day I will get to use my XSLT skills again :D

EDIT: However, I'm finding even with permissions a lot of these don't work to save to SVG...

Hmm I would need to fork it and fix it... maybe Inkscape is really the best option

Most people use it as a cache,.. you can build a lot of things with it that are far outside this narrow view... ( say a bidding system or something like that )

And for the other comment Scaling is possible via the commercial offering.. sofaik..

I didn't get to persuade anyone to let me use it for that.. I really wanted to.

This needs to stop. Assuming free services have pools of money; many are funded by good people that provide a safe place.

Many of these forums are really important and are intended for humans to get help and find people like them etc.

There has to be a point soon where action and regulation is needed. This is getting out of hand.

Further " Secret " is highly inaccurate; this is easily known public knowledge..