Good day everyone, I welcome you to all to my blog.
Its has really been a very Busy week for me, my offline work is really getting more intense and Time consuming, but Never say Never, am here again to write on my newbies Task for week 3.
For this week: we are talking on Our Hive keys, Password and How to safeguard our Accounts from thefts and scammers.
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Personally to me i believe this is a very great topics, the importance of security cannot be overemphasized.
No Matter how expert or pro your are, you need to safeguard your accounts or else you will loose all your hard earned money to those evil scammers.
On our Weekly Discord Hangout meeting, which was hosted by my able team leader @depressedfuckup,
Mr Depressed talked expressively on keeping our keys safe and not posting our keys anyhow in a public places.
He discussed on where you can actually save your keys.
He pointed out that you can actually write you keys safely in a book. He discouraged us keeping our keys on our Emails. He said Hackers can easily infiltrate our email accounts. Our Honourable Founder @starstrings01 give a very ingenious advice that if we actually want to save it on phone that we can omit some numbers that we can easily remember. I really love his approach because truly you only can remember the omitted words or numbers, so no hacker in world would be able to compromise your account.
For this week my partner is @wallay, we have an extensive discussion on the topic on whatapp. Where we shared a lot of ideas after the Newbies Hangout on discord.
Lets work on the Tasks for this week, we have three questions to be answered.
If you found out that your partner has mistakingly drop her active key in the discord channel or any public online space
If my partner @wallay drops his Active keys on any discord server or public online space whether mistakenly or not
I will advice him to Get it Deleted Immediately, Just to ensure that his earnings and rewards are safe, he will quickly transfer His Liquid assets like HBD and tokens to another account, a trusted account (probably he send it to my account)
We will change his Hive keys/passwords
Open your profile ( For Easy Explanation, i am using Peakd interface)
•Click on the three dots, to pop down the menu
• Click on Keys and Permission
• Click on Change password
Its is required of you to input your Owners Key. Once you input your owners Private Key, A new password would be generated.
What advice can you give to your friend, on How He or she can safeguard his or her Keys and Account in general?
My advice would be that he Should never reveal his Keys to anyone online or Offline, except maybe the person is trusted. He should always use Keychain App to secure his Keys and also for processing his transaction.
Just as Mr Depressed and Mr Starstrings01 instructed, He can type out or write out his keys and safeguard them in a very safe and secure place, or importantly Omit some figures of the Keys if He wants to save them on his phone or Email or Google drive.
Assuming your partner does not understand the use of each of these keys, how do you explain this to him/her in the simplest way?
Here is how i will explain to Him
The active key
The is used to process any financial transactions on your account. Anything that deals with transactions we use our active key.
The posting key
This key is basically for posting. It's required to use the posting key whenever you want to make a post, comments, reblog, mute account, up vote, and follow account.
The memo key
This key is used to send private message or encrypted messages. It is also required to read an encrypted message.
The owners key
This Key is used to claim ownership of your account, and also for account recovery. Should incase you suspect a someone have access to your account, you use the owner key to recover your account. Majorly it is used to Claim your account as the owner of the account.
The master key
This key is used to recover or generate any of your keyss,
When you can't remember where your keys are, you use the master key to recover them. This as the name implies can be used to recover or Create a new Key. When you lost your master key, your account is gone and not retrievable.
I hope you were able to learn a useful tips on how to safeguard your keys, and the various uses of the keys
