Isaac Abraham said,
>>You forgot one, don't keep the same password for months/years at a
>>time. Passwords should be changed once a month.
> Once a month? Are you serious?
Very. Many networks require users to change their passwords monthly,
invalidating the old one after 30 days.
> How do you manage to do this?
Go to http://www.customerdesk.u-net.com
Type in old password
Type in new password
:-)
> - Two ISPs
> - Bigfoot account
> - Moviecritic
> - Daily Telegraph Fantasy Premier League :)
> And some others. It would be a real hassle to keep changing all of them
> every month, plus remembering them etc..
I don't change non-critical passwords, in fact I use the same password
for all of those. I really don't care if my eGroups account gets
hacked.
> In all honesty Neil : In your opinion, what is the chance that your
> password can be seen by other people?
Remember the datatypes.library trojan? I saw the list of passwords it
generated and it was frightening. I got the list six months after the
library was released yet the passwords I was able to check had not
changed. That means hackers had unrestricted access to those accounts
for six months. How much private information have you transferred by
email in the last six months?
Neil
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