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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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    1. Don’t use the same password on Steam that you use from other services.
    2. Use a long password, with random characters and numbers.
    3. Use a password manager.
    4. Do not click on links in emails, unless you are 100% sure its from Valve. Better yet, visit Steam in your browser or the Steam app and search for the page there directly. Do not login on random websites requiring you to login to Steam.
    5. Do not click on links in chat from people you don’t know or added recently to your friends list.
    6. Set your Steam profile to private, or enable it for friends only at best. Especially if you have lot of skins.
    7. Ultimate weapon: Use official 2FA (2 factor authentication) with Steam app on your phone. Do not lose your phone, as you cannot login to Steam otherwise.

    No security is perfect, but following these basic rules will help you to secure your account. And there shouldn’t be any need to reset the password often. If you feel better, reset it once per year or so. I don’t.









  • Thunderbird doesn’t have the same annoying stuff of Firefox, as far as I know at least. However, there is no guarantee that Mozilla wouldn’t force this on Thunderbird someday, even if Thunderbird operates mostly independent.

    By switching to another client, I didn’t mean you can takeover your offline accounts and data to another client. Just meaning you can switch, as your mail accounts are not bound to any mail client. Unlike something like Photoshop in example, that was what I meant. There is fork Betterbird, in case Thunderbird decides to go wild (we can’t know that for sure). I did not look into it much, but I’m sure alternative forks that are compatible to the current Thunderbird profile (for import) will be available.


  • Thunderbird has their own finances and operates quite independent from Mozilla. They make more money than any other project under Mozilla’s banner. Thunderbird is quite successful. And even if one day a problem occurs, one could still use a fork or switch to a different mail client. But I don’t see any problem coming, unlike with Firefox in example.