Keeping my own computer safe is pretty easy. I don't run any servers and not responsible for anything else than my own connection. Getting actively hacked I feel is rather rare these days. Several years ago I picked up some ransomware somewhere and hadn't gotten rid of it by myself which I did, I would just have resorted to reformatting and starting over. Having up to date backups is such important thing I can't stress it enough.

Being password hacked is quite easy on a forum, and people get surprised when they understand that their quite complex passwords would only take a few hours if that to hack. It doesn't even matter if the forum runs a captcha after a certain number of attempts. To keep an account safe, it needs to go to lockdown mode if a number of attempts is made. Then you should have to only being able to reactivate with a second mean, like email. Sadly, I don't even see sites of this size using the system. Also, they are notoriously bad at updating their forum software.

That is why I for example never give any important information in private message. I actually had the unpleasant experience of someone holding a grudge, password hacking me. It somehow slipped my mind that I had a quite weak password, I was meaning to change it after registering but never did. That person got hold of a lot of info from my private messages. It's not a nice experience to have to say to the person that messaged you (and that you were too stupid to delete the message), that his "secrets" were basically out.

There ARE people who will turn on anyone, just because you're a nice person doesn't mean someone can't hate you with a passion. Or they hate you for being nice. Or whatever.

I'm glad that giants like Gmail don't actually let people into your account if someone logs in from a different device and a different place, OK that did temporarily lock me out from my own account, because when it comes to email people can be really stubborn about wanting to break into it. I send people stuff though email and I have to trust THEIR passwords to hold up. So I'm glad there is a better gatekeeping system there than just password.

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