Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:

https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight

Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3

and

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817

There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

What are we waiting for?

@ai6yr This is a poor example. LastPass has a history of poor security practices; they just had a data breach (exfiltrated source code) a few months ago. LastPass also has trackers in its client apps.

A reputable open-source password manager (with free cloud service) is @bitwarden

For those not a fan of cloud-based password managers, you can self-host Bitwarden. Alternatively, for local storage, those of us in the #privacy community recommend KeePassXC.

#infosec #cybersecurity