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Generate and remember secure passwords easily

Security in the internet age has long been neglected by the majority of users, even though their data has been at risk or even exposed not only recently. Nevertheless, many users struggle to use password managers in order to use strong and unique passwords for all services they use. You recognize yourself? Then there is good news for you: Even without using a password manager, it is quite easy to generate and remember secure and unique passwords for everyday use. Just follow the steps below and instantly use passwords complying with all standards which experts recommend for strong passwords.

    • At least 12 characters long
    • No words which can be found from a dictionary
    • No personal information
    • Should contain lower case letters, upper case letters, numbers, plus special characters
    • Unique for every website/service used

You can easily create and memorize passwords complying with these requirements by creating an individual rule.

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Kudos to THE DevOps team!

Guys, it’s a pleasure to work with you! You have contributed so much to awamo’s solution and you are so much committed to our project and our company. Great to have you guys on board! We’re working on the “guys” thing, promise 😀

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Illuminata

awamo Office Kampala, Uganda

Just arrived at Kampala HQ. Ben didn’t overpromise 🙂 We call it “The Cloud”, well met for an SaaS company. During the founding of awamo, there has been a funny discussion about awamo’s logo. Some feedbacks were like “Are you somehow connected to the Illuminati order?”. We found that very far-fetched and stuck to the draft. Our new business address at Kampala: Illuminata Nakyejwe Close. The flag has already been ordered 😉

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Protect your privacy (WOT edition)

The browser plugin Web of Trust (WOT) claimed to protect your privacy. Instead, WOT recorded your internet usage from your browser, performed poor anonymization of this data and then sold it. Consequently, the private lives of millions of users have been compromised. Their account balances, their travel, their families, many things have been exposed.

Problem is: most browser add-ons are capable of monitoring your activities and noone knows what happens to the data they record. This is a wide field, but focusing on the WOT scandal and browser extensions, you can protect yourself.

  • Delete any blocker/tracking add-on with commercial background, e.g. AdBlock (Plus), Ghostery, WOT etc.
  • Instead, use open source or trusted-source add-ons like uBlock Origin (open source, Chrome, Firefox), Privacy Badger (by Electronic Frontier Foundation, Chrome, Firefox) and HTTPS everywhere (by Electronic Frontier Foundation, Chrome, Firefox).

Besides, you should use a password manager like KeePass (open source) or LastPass in order to use secure and different passwords for all websites / services you use!

If you think you’re safe, think again.

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