There exist plenty of services on school campuses that send passwords in plaintext. There are services outside of school campuses that do, too. Hell, I've been able to bypass 2FA checks by just navigating around them, I don't know what else to tell you, not everything out there uses the best security practices, so don't assume that they do.

I mean, yes, I'm in my 40s, but it's just as effective today.

Gold.

...because they are?

I used to get job offers almost monthly, I haven't had one in about six months. But I think it's more due to the current economy and it being an election year than it drying up. I anticipate a bounce back Q1 or Q2 of next year.

The few cyber security people I've known...to work a good enough job that doesn't pay shit, also means that due to the nature of their job they end up with clients that require drug testing or working at jobs that require it. Not an every case, but just something to be aware of.

I'm not even an expert in this stuff, but with a tool I found online I demonstrated that it was easy to snoop people's passwords on my school's wifi networks back in the day. It took minutes.

Well that's disconcerting.

There's no failsafe? Jesus.

This is my conundrum. My Tesla is paid off, it's hardly worth what it was, it costs me basically nothing to drive thousands of miles (cheap electricity here)...but I hate that it has a Musk affiliation. I feel like I can't go anywhere without people judging which sucks.

But financially at this point it really doesn't make sense to get rid of it and get something else. I might as well drive it until it dies. Despite avoiding driving it because I don't want to be seen in it, I guess.

I've been using Kagi since February and it's been superb. I typically find what I need in the first 5 results and the ability to customize it is really nice.

It costs a little money, but honestly it's saved me so much time over the 12,000 or so searches I've conducted that it's worth it. Previously I'd sometimes have to hit up some combination of Google, Bing, DDG, Brave, etc. just to get somewhere.

Yeah... something big must be coming and they're gearing up for it.