Saturday, September 8, 2007

Yellow Sticker with a Lock

Do you still have a single password to the many online services you have accounts with? That's a sure way to invite trouble. Once your password gets stolen from one of such services, all your other accounts sharing the same passwords are at immediate risk. The only way to ensure security is by using unique passwords for each and every Web site that requires an account to log in. But how do you have dozens of unique passwords and not forget them? Some people are using passwords that are easy for them to remember, such as part of their name or an important date or phone number. The problem is that such passwords are as easy to guess by a malicious person as they are to remember. Others use the notorious yellow stickers with passwords written on them in plain text. This View the rest of this article


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