Account Security Homework: Authorized Apps

Dlive is no longer using the Steem Blockchain yet they still have many authorized posting privileges from steemians. Add in all of those DApps that people test out, yet never use people might be surprised how many accounts could maliciously act on your behalf as they still have Active Authorization Tokens. Most will only have Posting Privileges, but this is enough to harm your account.

While I had a different post in mind the comment below in @steemcleaners's discord today made me change my planned post to this one. As account security is of utmost importance and this is timely it made sense to make this a priority so please take a minute to read this and ACT NOW.

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_{Comment in Steem Cleaners Discord on March 2nd}

I'm guessing many people don't realize that if you give authorization to a dApp that until you revoke that token the authorization is still there. It's your job to protect your account and part of that is removing authorization to accounts you aren't actively using.

So it's time to do a little housecleaning....but how? Thanks to SteemConnect which most of us use to log into dApps it's actually very simple to take care of removing the Authorization Tokens.

Go to SteemConnect and log in on this page: https://app.steemconnect.com/apps/authorized

You will get a screen that looks like this:
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Click "Authorized Apps" and you will get a screen showing you all of the apps you have given authorization too. Our list isn't to bad, but I'm cleaning it down to the couple that are used on a regular basis.

Part of my logic as I cleaned house was on an account like dPoll which I use to vote in polls, but there is no reason to leave that token in place so I will be deleting it. Next time I vote it will require me authorizing them again, but until then our account will have no risk.

An account like Steem Auto needs to be left alone as I need them to make some auto votes for me on a daily basis.

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And with it cleaned up there are only 3 dApps I need to worry about getting hacked that have any access to @pifc.

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I will likely remove Steem Dunk as it seems that Steem Auto has stayed up and working correctly for a while now. Was using SteemDunk before since it was more reliable, but lately there haven't been issues with either so no reason to have both running.

Anyways that is it. Very simple way to protect your account. Please comment below and let us know how many Authorization Tokens you got rid of.

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