AfterWorld Survival Forum

We've had this discussion before (https://my.afterworld.deelogic.net/survival/index.php/topic,352.0.html for those that can access it)

I'm still willing to be a moderator

What I find amazing is that after 35 years and 18,000,000,000 km - Voyager 1 is still phoning home.

Yeah.... don't tell my mom that

as long as you define the question yourself.

Unfortunately, there are too many What City Were you born in? type questions, and people answer them honestly. This type of info is fairly easy to find out.
The additional questions are not real 2 factor authentication either - It's just a front, the same as a second password. You should assume it's just as secure as your password is.

+1 Jane - linking the two seems to be adding a level of insecurity I would not wish to see. seems I will not be changing the password on Forum for quite a while

Having worked in security from both sides, I can tell you that the password here needs to be different to your ingame one - if not, change it NOW - don't waste time reading the rest of this post, it can wait.

Well shit. Looks like the password here syncs with ingame. While it's a nice feature to be able to set your own ingame password, it should be different from forum

Assume that this password will be hacked - people are trying to find vulnerabilities, and attacking any avenue available. People are lazy, and will use the same password on multiple sites, exposing themselves to further damage should the password be stolen. If you can't cope with a different password for every site, consider using different ones for different levels - a forum password (that would just be an annoyance if it were breached), a personal info password (for email and such) and then different passwords for your major ones - bank accounts, health accounts, etc - ones that would cause major headaches if they should be discovered.

Find your password in a dictionary? throw it out - no good
Leet speak (change 1 letter for a number, L for 1 etc) - throw it out - no good
Add a number at the end? throw it out - no good (getting the idea yet?)

There are 4 items to put into a password - lowercase, uppercase, numbers and symbols. A secure password has all 4. Try to incorporate them all.
use a password manager if you must (but be aware those can be hacked too) - lastpass has 2 factor authentication, so is a good choice. I haven't looked at others, but if they don't have 2 factor, then they are as vulnerable as the next password

2 factor authentication should be used whenever possible - If you tried to log onto my gmail account, you would then need the word/code that google sends to my phone.

But, after saying all this, the biggest weakness in the whole chain is the human one.
password for chocolate
Social engineering

As a security consultant, this was by far the easiest way to get info. The next most successful was freebies - a few small (256k) USB drives, given away as "Corporate Gifts" was one of the easiest ways to get in (trojans hidden ready to autorun when the drives were plugged in), so the security of passwords on a forum such as this is not a great concern. Just be aware of the possibilities, and don't get carried away - Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean anyone really cares about you.

yes - the retransmitter for that region is on a hill to the south, but too far into the dark matter zone for us to be able to reach it.

use your native language. The writers of this game are russian, so they could help you.
I know google translate is bad, but it can give you some idea, perhaps?

использовать свой ​​родной язык.Авторы этой игре Россия, таким образом они могут помочь вам.
Я знаю, Google Translate это плохо, но он может дать вам некоторое представление, что ли?