Preflight_Tomato

Preflight_Tomato , 1 month ago to Technology in Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025

Most just don’t know how to properly file their W-4 to not have taxes withheld in the first place.

How do you do this? How do you calculate what to personally withhold and pay? Is it simply calculating through the income tax?

Preflight_Tomato , 2 months ago to Privacy in Got tracked down for my school reunion

To help with this in the future, you can also create several fake results sharing your real name. Stuff like a blogger with one post not in your writing style, etc.. This will dilute searches with disinformation. Removal of real data is important, but you can also confuse anyone looking.

Preflight_Tomato , 4 months ago to Privacy in What are your thoughts on USB storage drives that have keypad encryption?

Password Entropy = length * log2(possible_chars). So this would actually add 7*log2(10) => 23 bits of entropy, assuming the attacker knew that this section was numeric, or ~45 bits if they didn't.

For anyone curious: Current best practice is a minimum of 100 bits, or 16 characters assuming only letters, numbers, and special characters. The recommended minimum bits increases every year with computing power.