Hack alert

Tue, 26 May 2020 06:45:07 GMT

So, Livejournal has had a truly massive password breach, from 2014. If you had a livejournal before that, it is now possible to obtain a file that has all the passwords, in plaintext, with the usernames and emails they are associated with. More information at Squirrelitude's excellent post.

( Rambling about identities below the cut )

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As far as you know, I only have one dreamwidth. It does, after all, make the difference between access and reading so much better.

But it's nice to know that the option could be there again.

~Sor
MOOP!

PostScript: Consider this to be me explicitly revoking consent for you to intentionally go and try and find any of my journals or identities using this breach. Do not do that, I will not think better of you if I find out, and if you feel inclined to do something like that, I can find better friends to spend time on.

1: Which I'm not telling you because it was also the secret hack to finding "all" of someone else's journals, and that's that person's business.

2: Do you know the name of the only voice channel on my Discord server? Of course you don't! It's set with permissions such that I am the only person allowed in there! Why? Because I am crazy³, and the ways in which I manage that are sometimes very strange.

3: I use this non-pejoratively, but it is the correct word. Sometimes my brain works very very poorly, or oddly, and I am driven to do things that likely don't make sense to anyone else, but I can feel some sense of ritual around them that makes it work for me. Anyways, it's named for the place I go when I cry during bells, and that's enough said about that.

4: Melody, my new little machine, has version 4.0 sitting on her desktop, just quietly available should I need it. Keladry was 3.0, Vera was 2.1, Seren was 2.0, and Dmitri Alexander II had the first BehindtheWalls file, started in February of 2005 because things were _much_ and even if I wasn't posting in my journal, I still needed to write.

...holy fuck, I've been using the term "Behind the Walls" for literally half my life now. Dang. That is...a lot.

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