Evil bots hunting the innocent. The darkside of the force raising up again. If you never make mistakes, you don't have to worry. But a big warrior have been knocked down, and he saw a field full of dead bodies...
Just a warning. We're still alive.
Today I recovered my steemit account. Almost ten days not knowing what was going to happen to it. In the meantime, I saw my money being transferred to another account, then I realized my steemit account was robbed, not only blocked as I thought at the beginning.
¿How this happened to me?
I used to be a natural code breaker.
I think I was in friendly mode. Social network... Love and friendship, collaboration and support. I forgot about the cheaters. I forgot that we are dealing with money, and money have more friends than I have.
I reviewed the history of the user who stole my account. He has stolen other accounts. He always catch the same error: people mistakenly put their master password visible in a public post. My password was changed in nine seconds!!! This could only be done by using a robot. ¿How can we be safe against that?
The safe way
Steemit provide 4 passwords with different levels of authority.
By default we use the one with higher level: OWNER.
You can do everything with the OWNER key. It can remove all other passwords if needed. We should save it in a secure location and use it only when there are problems.
The ACTIVE key can also do everything but the owner key can change it (You need to change the OWNER key to change all other keys)
I rather use the POSTING key, since posting is the more frequent activity I do. If more authority is needed then I use the ACTIVE key.
The MEMO key has the lowest authority.
If only you stop using the OWNER key and reduce to the minimum the use of the ACTIVE key you will be safe of the evil bots I talked you about in the beginning.
More details about how bots are used to steal steemit accounts in This post.
My last post before losing my account was the New Year Post.
I wrote this:
"Yes ... As a child I want to receive what is coming; unprejudiced.
I still have the courage to laugh, play and dream ..."