Aarif Meghani

I install follow-up systems for coaches, consultants and agency owners, so no lead waits, nobody gets forgotten, and old leads come back | British nomad.

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@ThisathKR Do it!!!

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Which of your passwords are sitting on a website that runs PHP right now?

You can't know.

So here's what happened this week, and a free guide at the end to clean things up.

PHP is the code behind roughly 70% of websites.

On Wednesday, two serious flaws in it went public, and they let an attacker take over a site's server without logging in.

Governments across Europe took their own sites offline while they patched things up.

Your phone and laptop are fine.

The risk is what you've already handed over to the sites that get hit: your name, your email address, and the password you signed up with.

Hopefully it's a password you've only used once.

That last one is the one that got me.

In 2020 I woke up to two emails from Netflix.

Password changed.

New sign-in from Muscat, Oman.

Definitely not me.

More traumatic than that, whoever it was used my account to watch two episodes of Gossip Girl.

I traced it back by doing a deep dive on password security.

In 2017, I'd used one of my throwaway passwords on Peatix, a ticketing app I opened and used only once for a comedy gig.

Peatix was breached in January 2019, and my email and password ended up on a list that gets passed around and tried on every website possible.

Not very funny.

That's what happens to leaked data though.

It doesn't stay on the site it leaked from.

So I spent the next two days fixing everything, and wrote it up in a short guide called Digital Hygiene.

I used to send this PDF to everyone who joined my email list.

It covers:

1. How to check if your email has turned up in a breach
2. Setting up a free password manager, step by step
3. 2FA, and why an app beats SMS codes

Plus a few sections on locking down Instagram, since that's where I was building an audience back then.

This week's a good time to sort your Digital Hygiene out.

Because bad hygiene is disgusting.

Reply "HYGIENE" and I'll send you the PDF. No email sign-up needed.

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@imightbeAnonn @lennysan MAYCREATE® 50PCS Eyeglasses... https://t.co/MZBv7LFEsQ

This has many different types in one order, I thought I’d have to try out a few types to see what works best but the round ones have been awesome,

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@lennysan *and humid weather.

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@lennysan These silicon anti-slip grips for my glasses…

Stopped having to push up my glasses in the sweaty and humidity weather.

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@CoachDanGo People thinking that *their* way of life (social, religious, cultural) is the only *right* one.

Especially now we all have easy access to so many different cultures, ways of thinking, living etc.

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@FumieGomi Sent

[Aarif Meghani @CustomersOnAuto]

Which of your passwords are sitting on a website that runs PHP right now?

You can't know.

So here's what happened this week, and a free guide at the end to clean things up.

PHP is the code behind roughly 70% of websites.

On Wednesday, two serious flaws in it went public, and they let an attacker take over a site's server without logging in.

Governments across Europe took their own sites offline while they patched things up.

Your phone and laptop are fine.

The risk is what you've already handed over to the sites that get hit: your name, your email address, and the password you signed up with.

Hopefully it's a password you've only used once.

That last one is the one that got me.

In 2020 I woke up to two emails from Netflix.

Password changed.

New sign-in from Muscat, Oman.

Definitely not me.

More traumatic than that, whoever it was used my account to watch two episodes of Gossip Girl.

I traced it back by doing a deep dive on password security.

In 2017, I'd used one of my throwaway passwords on Peatix, a ticketing app I opened and used only once for a comedy gig.

Peatix was breached in January 2019, and my email and password ended up on a list that gets passed around and tried on every website possible.

Not very funny.

That's what happens to leaked data though.

It doesn't stay on the site it leaked from.

So I spent the next two days fixing everything, and wrote it up in a short guide called Digital Hygiene.

I used to send this PDF to everyone who joined my email list.

It covers:

1. How to check if your email has turned up in a breach
2. Setting up a free password manager, step by step
3. 2FA, and why an app beats SMS codes

Plus a few sections on locking down Instagram, since that's where I was building an audience back then.

This week's a good time to sort your Digital Hygiene out.

Because bad hygiene is disgusting.

Reply "HYGIENE" and I'll send you the PDF. No email sign-up needed.

[Aarif Meghani @CustomersOnAuto]

@DanielAchog Diarrhoea on the timeline.

Farts in the comments.

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@dominikmartinX I noticed that this is a lot in my own behaviour the last year or so.

I think companies will still need a website or a landing page, though.

It's just that search won't be the way to draw people to that landing page.

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You can also use a song name as a password, like this one.

https://t.co/nls55lcZmz

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@SirTopiano Absolutely. If I ask people whether they use a password manager, most look back at me blankly.

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@thejustinwelsh It's a much better mindset to work on your side project when you have a stable income.

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@LeonardoFreixas I heard a line once, years back, that stuck with me:

"The fact is, there are no facts, only opinions, but we treat them as facts. "

Treat everything as something to be questioned.

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@ItsAndraz This is how you create space in your life for more, including fat loss.

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@riinshaan Regular monthly review of subscriptions, app downloads and marketing emails has now become part of my routine.

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@SirTopiano What's the point of even having closed book exams like we used to anymore?

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@SirTopiano People just can't handle doing nothing these days.

We're too accustomed to keeping every moment active.

It's a slowly dying pleasure....

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@ChrisH_Au Tracking where your day goes is initially a very surprising experience.

usually not a good one.

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My weirdest one that always works for me is leaving a task UNFINISHED at the end of the day.

The next morning, I jump straight into that task, finish it off quickly, and already accomplish something.

It's counterintuitive, but the combination of an open task and quick closure gives me momentum.