[77/366] so it begins

( not specific but gloomy )

I've got friends formally making a point of journaling their covid-related experiences, and here I am regretting that I wanted to write something every day this year, ha. I really hope I have less gloomy things to talk about soon.

DW spammy subscribers

Like a lot of people, I've noticed a couple of dodgy-looking new subscribers to my Dreamwidth in the last few days. A friend suggested people file anti-spam support requests. I did that and just got this reply that I figured was worth sharing:

Hi there!

Thanks for letting us know. It looks like a bundle of older accounts have been taken over by spammers, probably because the owner of the account reused passwords across sites.

We've identified and suspended the accounts that were compromised until their owners can write in to us and get instructions on how to resecure them. In the meantime, this is a great opportunity to remind your friends that they should use a different strong password for every site they have an account on, without reusing them from site to site, and consider using a password manager to generate and keep track of them all.

Advice I'd do well to take myself, to be honest. It's one of those things I "keep meaning to get around to" and don't feel like I'll ever do, so maybe it can be a fun self-isolation project for me.