How to keep our Steemit Password safe?
Greetings steemit community, then I will present 2 ways to restore our steemit password in case we lose it, this will help us maintain control over our account in case there is an emergency in which we forget our password.
I will distribute the tutorial in 2 post, will implement 2 different methods equally valid and applicable in any scenario, this for users to choose the method they like most of the 2 post, everything will focus on providing an extra layer of security so that The password does not fall into the hands of third parties.
To protect our password, we will first register with pastebin
What is Pastebin?
R / Pastebin is a website in which we will be able to paste pieces of text or code, we will use it to store our steemit password privately and safely
After registering we must enter the email with which we register in pastebin to confirm our account and thus to proceed to save with privacy our password of steemit
After having completed the entire registration form, having confirmed the pastebin account we then proceed to write our steemit password in pastebin in a private way
1: Paste expiration: Life time of your text, since we will keep it as an emergency backup we will choose "NEVER", so that it never expires.
2: Paste exposure: Tell us if we want our text to be private or public, we will choose private to keep our steemit password safe, remember to be registered to access the option of private pastures.
3: Paste name / title: Here we put the name or title that we want to put to the text that we will keep in private, in this case since it is our password steemit of backup the name will be: STEEMITPASSWORDBACKUP.
After following these steps correctly we will get something like this:
At this point our work on pastebin is over, now we will start creating a QR code to save our pastebin paste in which we wrote our password previously.
According to Wikipedia a QR code is defined as:
"A QR (Quick Response code) code is the evolution of the bar code, it is a module for storing information in an array of points or in a two-dimensional bar code ... It presents three Squares in the corners that allow to detect the position of the code to the reader. "
We will go to: http://es.qr-code-generator.com/
Next we will copy the url of the pastebin where we have our steemit password safe and paste it into the QR code generator:
We save the image of our QR code in a safe place (YOU CAN PRINT THE QR CODE AND SAVE IT IN A PHYSICAL PLACE)
Likewise you can also save it on your pc or paste it on your blog or website, remember to keep the text private so that no one other than you can read your data stored in the pastebin.
To conclude with this first part, what we will do is download an app which reads QR codes: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=qr&c=apps&hl=en
Restore Password:
Having already installed the QR code reader on the smartphone what we will do is read the QR code to retrieve the password that is stored in our pastebin, remember that the QR code we have configured so that at the time of reading teach us the text Of the pastebin.
We will read the following code:
