I am guilty of using the same password for many accounts, but I make sure that any account that could hurt me financially has a unique (and over 8 chars) password. I have so many username/password accounts that I finally succumbed and installed a password keeper application on my pc that prevents anyone to read those from a previously kept text file. I should know better, I am the sysadmin on a hosting site. Now I use the free KeePass app, there are others, but I like this one, recommended... http://keepass.info/
Walter -----Original Message----- From: Hugh Barrass (hbarrass) Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 2:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] (no subject) Jumping in - I agree with Ben but I wanted to add... The biggest problems are caused by obscure websites that require username/password (or email address/password) and then don't secure their storage of the same. A hacker gets the password file (whether encrypted or not) posts it online & very shortly all of the username/password combos are public domain. If you use the same password for many sites (as most people do) then the hackers have access to all of those sites. Furthermore, the passwords can be broken into constituent parts and become part of the dictionary used to break future passwords, so using passwords that are made up of variations of clever components also breaks down. In short, use randomly generated passwords & store them securely on your local machine. Hugh. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
