Major Geeks Swag

You guys push your swag all the time but I'm curious out of the money people use to buy stuff how much of it goes towards supporting MG ?

 

Yeah I was speaking of what the percent profits do you guys get from teespring that's all.. Honestly I thought it wasn't much, normally things like that don't deal out a whole lot.

I more so was curious cause over the last year I bought a tshirt, hoodie and three masks all sportin something of MajorGeeks. After reading that I guess if I really wanted to support you guys i'd just donate through paypal.. maybe next time

 

Well MajorGeeks has became a rather large part of my life. I visit the site numerous times during the day and if I recommend a download to anyone 90-95% of the time it's through you guys.
When people ask "what's the best (insert software here)" I tend to refer them to the best freeware link. Since I've learned over the years, what the best software is for ME doesn't mean it's the best for someone else. I may find certain things easy to use/navigate/get the job done. But others may not.

I also find myself checking out new software almost weekly, not that I do much on my PC.. But one never knows when something may stop getting supported or makes a change that I dislike and have me scramble for something new.. At times I even find myself testing out Nightly versions of stuff just to tickle that part of my brain.

So when the opportunity arose for me to snap up some MG swag I had to, I feel like so many people don't have basic computer knowledge to keep things up and running good. So if I get a chance to promote something that I like I try to do just that.

 

You guys should send me a free T-shirt in my size! I was thinking about joining HIBP and guess what I found? And you never notified me of this breach. Thanks a heap!


MajorGeeks: In November 2015, almost 270k accounts from the MajorGeeks support forum were breached. The accounts were being actively sold and traded online and included email addresses, salted password hashes and IP addresses.

Compromised data: Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames

 

Salted password hashes - so precautions were taken, right? Perhaps MG should have disclosed and sent out emails advising about the alleged breach way back in 2015 - but I am a relatively new member and wasn't around. But this day and age, we hear about data break in's pretty much every day! Methinks the "big deal" isn't about notifications anymore... but much more that users need to just "assume" breakin's as a matter of time... and set up accordingly!

Anyhoo, my various forum accounts are all created using different burner email's, different handles, and unique 15-character passwords (thank you, Keepass!). Zebra... is last, get it? So... if any of my forum accounts becomes compromised, the damage is minimal to nil.