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[Marko :)]

Are birthdays disabled?
I used to always get a message on my birthday, but today I got nothing...

Happy birthday... with a slight delay! We're gonna blame it on time-zone differences.

Happy Birthday.

I put a fake birthday on my profile, no one needs to know it.

According to the internet, I was born on 01/01/1998.
According to my birth certificate, only year is correct.

You should never give your date of birth online, as well as answer truthfully on security questions. There are still online services that verify account identity based on those, and anyone who knows these details may get access to your online accounts.

 

[TairikuOkami]

You should never give your date of birth online, as well as answer truthfully on security questions.

Indeed, in my country, the day of birth is actually used as a social security number in US, it is unique. So when they call me and ask me:
When were you born? In 20th century. What year? The year of a dog. But what day? It was a night. The date? No, I am single, but thanks.

 

[Marko :)]

Indeed, in my country, the day of birth is actually used as a social security number in US, it is unique. So when they call me and ask me:
When were you born? In 20th century. What year? The year of a dog. But what day? It was a night. The date? No, I am single, but thanks.

You're joking, but in Yugoslavia, all republics had JMBG (jedinstveni matični broj građana, eng. unique master citizen number) which was your social security number. It was made of date of birth, republic, region you're from, if you're natural citizen, your sex etc. I was born two years after the war and still had JMBG because countries continued to use it, just renamed it from JMBG to MBG.

Only in 01/01/2009, because of possible privacy violations, government announced creation of OIB (osobni identifikacijski broj, eng. personal identification number) which was actually a random set of numbers assigned to every citizen and business entity.

Fun fact: even though (J)MBG is long gone from any use, a lot of government issued documents still have (J)MBG field for you to fill it and you can leave it empty or write your OIB. But no one should be surprised. Our laws still have written fines in Deutsche Marks.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

No Windows 11 option yet, used Other.

Windows 11 is back

 

[simmerskool]

I think this happened before: I logged in today and did not ask for my 2fa code, I had had a cup of coffee so I realized this immediately, so I logged out, logged back in and system did ask for user name and pw but again did not ask for my 2fa --- 2fa is enabled. Curious to me, if firefox cache page loading why would it ask for user & pw but skip 2fa, if cache wouldn't it open with me already logged in on main page?? I dunno

EDIT closed firefox & cleared everything, logged in a 3d time and this time system did ask for my 2fa code. It occurred to me that not impossible that a recent login might have left default "trust for 30 days" checked... although my standard practice is to UNcheck that box. (at least I have a plausible explanation)

 

[Marko :)]

I think this happened before: I logged in today and did not ask for my 2fa code, I had had a cup of coffee so I realized this immediately, so I logged out, logged back in and system did ask for user name and pw but again did not ask for my 2fa --- 2fa is enabled. Curious to me, if firefox cache page loading why would it ask for user & pw but skip 2fa, if cache wouldn't it open with me already logged in on main page?? I dunno

EDIT closed firefox & cleared everything, logged in a 3d time and this time system did ask for my 2fa code. It occurred to me that not impossible that a recent login might have left default "trust for 30 days" checked... although my standard practice is to UNcheck that box. (at least I have a plausible explanation)

Information about login isn't saved in cache, but cookie. MT saves your login information in the cookie and even if you log out, because cookie contains information about your previous login, it won't ask you for 2FA code.

This is why it asked you on a third try, after you cleared everything (including cookies).

 

[simmerskool]

Information about login isn't saved in cache, but cookie. MT saves your login information in the cookie and even if you log out, because cookie contains information about your previous login, it won't ask you for 2FA code.

This is why it asked you on a third try, after you cleared everything (including cookies).

on today's 3d login I had cleared everything, & it did ask for 2fa, but normally every time I login (at least once a day) it asks for my 2fa. I think I have firefox set to clear everything when I close it. will see what tomorrow brings

 

[Marko :)]

on today's 3d login I had cleared everything, & it did ask for 2fa, but normally every time I login (at least once a day) it asks for my 2fa. I think I have firefox set to clear everything when I close it. will see what tomorrow brings

May I ask why is that so important to you? Hackers don't tend to attack forums because there's no value here. Hackers target only big platforms like social media, streaming services or bank institutions. I never activated 2FA on any forum, because forum accounts are the least important for me. And I never use my personal e-mail address for registration on them; you really shouldn't either.

 

[simmerskool]

May I ask why is that so important to you? Hackers don't tend to attack forums because there's no value here. Hackers target only big platforms like social media, streaming services or bank institutions. I never activated 2FA on any forum, because forum accounts are the least important for me. And I never use my personal e-mail address for registration on them; you really shouldn't either.

MT makes it available for some reason, so I use it. Is it important to me -- it depends how you define the question. I sit at my computer a few hours a day, perhaps too many hours, and I know how it normally operates, if I notice an anomaly I like to figure out why -- what caused it. For now I am satisfied that I probably forgot to uncheck the trust this computer box.

 

[lokamoka820]

I think this happened before: I logged in today and did not ask for my 2fa code, I had had a cup of coffee so I realized this immediately, so I logged out, logged back in and system did ask for user name and pw but again did not ask for my 2fa --- 2fa is enabled. Curious to me, if firefox cache page loading why would it ask for user & pw but skip 2fa, if cache wouldn't it open with me already logged in on main page?? I dunno

EDIT closed firefox & cleared everything, logged in a 3d time and this time system did ask for my 2fa code. It occurred to me that not impossible that a recent login might have left default "trust for 30 days" checked... although my standard practice is to UNcheck that box. (at least I have a plausible explanation)

The only 2 reasons I can think about are:

• You closed Firefox and opened it immediately, so it didn't clear everything completely.
• One of the Firefox processes was stuck in the background when you close it, so it didn't clear anything at all.

 

[Marko :)]

This is a load of * you talk, offcourse it needs 2FA, why do you think this is invented and implemented on forums ? Any mail adres , other kind of info is data, data is gold now a days.
Remember the old vBulletin forums being hacked ? So please keep your good advice for yourself.

First rule of security is ALWAYS have more than one e-mail address. You should ALWAYS use different e-mail addresses for different online accounts. This is the only way to keep your personal e-mail address private and not to get hacked. I myself have many e-mail addresses; I have personal one which is only used for important communication, I have one for communication with companies and online shopping, I have one for registration on various sites not that important to me and the last e-mail address I have is for pure spam.

This is why you should never register to any website with your personal and important e-mail address. Sooner or later, there will be a hacker attack and your e-mail address will be leaked. 2FA won't help you with that and you'll keep receiving spam constantly. This is why having separate e-mail addresses is MUST and the key in internet security.

Same goes for online shopping. Buy a prepaid card and transfer funds on it from your real bank card on it. NEVER give your real bank card online; you should always have a separate one for online payments. You can never be so sure and there were cases where trusted payment processors were compromised and card data was stolen.

2FA just prevents someone getting in your account, but won't and can't help you if there's a leak. Your e-mail address will get exposed anyway, and maybe the password. But all serious websites should hash your password so hacker won't even have them.
I'm using 2FA on important stuff, like my Google and Microsoft account, but I certainly never use it for forums for which I use dedicated e-mail address that isn't used for anything of importance. And I can proudly say that I have never been hacked in my entire life.

You can be safe online. You just need to know how.

 

[simmerskool]

The only 2 reasons I can think about are:

• You closed Firefox and opened it immediately, so it didn't clear everything completely.
• One of the Firefox processes was stuck in the background when you close it, so it didn't clear anything at all.

could be firefox flatpak running on immutable silverblue linux kernel but more probable that sneaky default checkmark was in the trust [ x ] box. IMO "trust" should not be default but I was outvoted.

 

[silversurfer]

@Marko :) and @TuxTalk
The forum thread here has a different purpose…
If really needed, please consider to continue your discussion rather in other forum sections, for instance: General Security Discussions

 

[simmerskool]

using brave the like icons bottom right of the window are not working correctly with brave, a flatpak version on linux. the only thing I can do is click word "like" but if I try to select one of the icons they disappear. not sure if this is a brave issue, perhaps a brave extension issue (although brave does not have any extensions installed other than what it has by default), MT issue, linux issue, or some other issue

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

using brave the like icons bottom right of the window are not working correctly with brave, a flatpak version on linux. the only thing I can do is click word "like" but if I try to select one of the icons they disappear. not sure if this is a brave issue, perhaps a brave extension issue (although brave does not have any extensions installed other than what it has by default), MT issue, linux issue, or some other issue

Default filter lists ?
Any other changes over default?
If you disable the shields does it work and did you disable scripts ?

 

[oldschool]

@Jack A bug I reported in Post #1,175 is also being reported by various members who use Firefox on MT. The bug is related to the use of multiple emojis, including incorrect placement of multiple emojis and inability to input text after placement of emoji.

https://malwaretips.com/threads/is-...g-firefox-on-MalwareTips.134128/#post-1111366

I can't remember if you looked into this before, or not.