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RE: Withdraw Routes prüfen, anlegen, ändern oder löschen
If you didn’t mention it, I had know idea withdraw route exist. I do have a question, how is it possible to hack such a password that’s as long as steemit password… same password they keep telling us that if we misplace it, we should forget about our account because it cannot be retrieved.
Good and important question!
Hacking in the sense of going through all possible combinations to find the right one at some point is not impossible, but in my opinion the probability is close to zero.
It seems more likely to me that keys were entered on an unreliable site, e.g. Autovoter or another tool.
This means that we have to be very careful if we are asked to enter a private key anywhere, especially if this is the active or even owner key, not to mention the master password.
Another option is to grant authorisation to another account. For example, 635 users have currently granted upvu.web a posting authorisation. This should be fine, upvu.org needs this permission to authorise scheduled posts.
However, I find it worrying that (for example) 12024 users have currently granted wherein an active permission. As far as I can see, this is the app from wherein.io - I don't know why this app needs active permissions. This means that the app or the operators of the app can make transfers. I would think twice about that! (Don't get me wrong, I don't know the operators and I'm not aware of anything negative.)
So, we should also be very careful when granting permissions. As is often the case, you can find an overview of which permissions you have granted at steemworld.org.
Oh - that was a lot of text, summary:
Stay safe!
Thank you so much for this piece of advice..
I will be more careful with who I give access to my account.
But with posting key, there’s no cause for alarm??
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