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Why password security is the weakest among other security measures?

We have all been using passwords to access out personal accounts for various websites, but it's common that most of the people use the same password for every online account as it seems hard for people to remember 10-15 passwords for various different websites which they use every single day. So here comes the other login methods such as Fingerprint, IRIS scanner and RF cards to validate your accounts and many companies these days are even having 2-factor authentications such as sending messages to phones to authenticate which again is not a very secure practice as many spoofing techniques can be implemented to by get access to the messages and google recently released 2-factor authentication that sends a notification as well as a unique number to select for authentication which could be a much better alternative when majority of the people are using android phones, but out of all these fingerprints, IRIS, and RF cards(MFA) are the most secure ways to protect any security a...

Installing packages with apt-get on gitpod

Until recently I did not know that I could install packages with apt-get on gitpod as it always wanted me to have root permissions, here is how it should be done. If you are using a public git repository make sure you have push permissions to the repository or fork the repository unless you are the real owner of the repository. Now you probably should be already aware that there is an actual ` Browser Extension ` for  chrome  and  Mozilla , if not you should install that to make things easy instead of editing the URL( appending  gitpod.io/# ) all the time to open the repository in gitpod. After you open the repository in gitpod run the below command >> gp init This will generate  .gitpod.yml  and  .gitpod.Dockerfile  files. Now modify the docker file something like below( for install  redis-server  in my case) FROM gitpod/workspace-full USER gitpod RUN sudo apt-get update -q && \ sudo apt-get install -yq ...