Lissy93 / personal-security-checklist

🔒 A compiled checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy in 2024
https://digital-defense.io
Other
17.16k stars 1.2k forks source link

[CONTENT-CHANGE] Maybe add a note about separate account on "Be cautious when logging in on someone else’s device" #68

Open matkoniecz opened 3 years ago

matkoniecz commented 3 years ago

For

Be cautious when logging in on someone else’s device

it seems that it can be useful to add note that for some services one may have multiple accounts - and log in with less valuable one (for example without admin privileges, not using real name).

Or is it obvious/rare to have it worthwhile?

Lissy93 commented 3 years ago

Yeah, that's a good point, though I guess you would still want to apply the same protections if possible, as in some instances it can be possible for an attacker to traverse horizontally (e.g. they gain access to a non-important email account, but use it to prove identity and reset a password for another website, or they are just able to collect info).

But I think this would be something which would just depend on the situation: the importance account your accessing, the trustworthyness of the computer you are using, etc