The idea for this show was born from my recent "hack adventures" on my personal "level", but I'm glad that we did it... We didn't have a big crowd in the show, but we did have some experienced participants in the show, which helped a lot in shaping this important discussion about safety online... I have to admit that I was counting on that, as #HHHLive participants are skilled Hivians and always ready to help!

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In the show, we were talking about our experiences with hacks, malware, viruses, and other nasty things... Every single bad experience was a valuable lesson for the future, and it makes us more "scam-proof." It was interesting to hear others and their past encounters with hacks and viruses, which showed that it can happen to anyone... You can be an experienced IT user, but you can still fall into a trap of a scammer... That's why it's important to share, and to learn about new techniques that have been used nowadays... Bad actors are improving too, and those "hack" practices from the past aren't effective anymore, but some more sophisticated ones have been developed...

Let me share a few titbits about the topics and discussions that we have covered in this show... Of course, I would strongly suggest you scroll down and play the complete show recording...

• At the beginning, I shared my recent events about my hosting server being hacked... How the hack happened, who got affected, and shared a few tips on how to avoid being hacked if you run your own website...

• That wasn't the only example when I got hacked, and I have shared the story that happened 20 years ago, while I was using Windows as my operating system... Despite having a firewall and antivirus software, I got hacked! What was the damage? I explained in the show...

• @stresskiller was the first one to share his experience with hacks... He got his website hacked in 2002, when in those days the "deface" was the most popular type of hack... A hacker would change your website's look and show a completely different page, usually with a scam link to some other place...

• Somewhere around the same time (or maybe a bit later), @jza was also active in the IT world... As Windows had many security issues, with a lot of users being infected by worms, viruses, and a slow system in general, he was one of the Linux ambassadors in those days, promoting a better solution... Btw. I was one of those who changed from Windows to Linux after my personal machine got hacked!

• As we were in the "good old days", @felixx reminded us about how it was done (and still is) in the past... When you have a Windows computer for more than a few months, it will be full of worms and viruses... In those days, you would pull out your "system image" CD from the drawer, and restore your original OS installation with your pre-installed software... Clean start!

• @felixxx mentioned different ways how hackers work nowadays... It's more of a social engineering, besides the technical aspect of it...

• @thekittygirl bounced us back to HIVE, writing in the chat about storing keys on Google Drive, or in your email messages... Those ARE NOT good practices and you should AVOID doing that!

• @jza mentioned the Telegram scams (bouncer bots), which are operating in Discord too... For example, when you see those accounts offering "free support" if you send them DM, or giving away some incredibly valuable AIRDROPs, etc. Stay away from those things! If it's too good to be true, it's probably a scam! One of the very clever scams can be an offer that sounds like this: "We need beta testers and will pay you $1000/week to work for us"... I didn't pay attention to something like that, but @thekittygirl reminded us all!

• Another good tip was to always DOUBLE CHECK THE ADDRESS before sending some funds (or delegations) to another account... You can misspell the username, and your money is gone! Speaking of misspelling, there are tons of scammers on the Internet using names SIMILAR to some popular influencers, trying to scam people...

• @duskobgd wasn't in the show, and he couldn't join us in voice, but he sent a message in the chat during the show with one very important question and a topic!

  The topic is interesting, and if I were there, I would raise a question related to the Recovery account, because I've been thinking about it for some time. Maybe someone asks the same thing, so I'll listen to the video 🙂

• Thanks to his suggestion, we spent a nice chunk of time trying to dive deep into the Recovery account procedure, how it works, for what it serves, etc. As it's not something that people are doing often, we were lucky to have @thekittygirl with us in the show, who was doing that for a couple of users! 🙏

Official place with a recovery procedure explained: https://developers.hive.io/tutorials-python/account_recovery.html

• As we were over 1 hour in the show, it was time to wrap it up with a few tips on how to keep your HIVE/HBD safe, or to get a bit more time to recover your account before a hacker can steal your funds... Powering up your HIVE is giving you plenty of time before it gets unstaked and available for transfer... IN the same way, putting your HBD (or HIVE) in SAVINGS will give you at least 3 days to sort out your account keys...

Don't forget to check out the show recording below!

We had 9 participants (including me) in the show this week!!! Hopefully, we attract more people to the next shows... Having crypto in the sideways markets doesn't help with engagement! 😃 Thanks for participating, @felixxx, @incublus, @jza, @les90, @melinda010100, @stresskiller, @stdd, and @thekittygirl! Thank you, everyone, for joining. I hope you had fun and learned something new!

Of course, we had a usual after-show where we continued the discussion about HIVE, but also got into some other topics thanks to people who joined in that part! I didn't record that, so if you are curious to hear how it looks, come to the next show! 🙂

Thank you, guys and girls, once again! As a sign of appreciation, I will send some LEN tokens to all participants of the live show! You can pair them with LENM tokens, add liquidity to the diesel pool, and earn rewards! If you want to learn more about the project behind it, check out the @liotes account or visit the Liotes website... Of course, if you are not interested in it, you can sell tokens on the Hive-Engine market...

To encourage more people to come on the mic, I usually send additional ECENCY points for those sharing things in voice... This week, 100 POINTS goes to @felixxx, @jza, @stresskiller, and @thekittygirl, as they were sharing things and asking questions on the mic! 😃

Special thanks goes to @melinda010100 and @good-karma for providing the space for the event!

Thank you for your time. --ph--

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