Re:Can Snowden be targeted using the Adobe breach?
by PeterisP on Sunday November 03, 2013 @07:40PM
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Your filing cabinet example is spot on.
If the cabinet for storing blank paper that I don't care about (and it's my cabinet, not something entrusted to me for safeguarding) requires a passcode, then I'd both set the passcode to '0000000' or '123456', and write it on a post-it note right there.
Similarly, if some website or forum that I don't care about (and don't fear if someone or everyone accesses my account) starts for me to require an account+password that I don't want - then I'd both set the password to something trivial ('password' ?) and ensure that my browser stores it so I don't have to. In an ideal world, I wouldn't have that account/password at all - most of accounts listed in my browser password-list are accounts where some site forces me to keep a password that I don't want to 'keep an account', do 'personalization', etc.
For example, I have a (free) account on Spotify. Is there any good reason why I should have a secure password there? Is there any good reason why I shouldn't tweet that password to everyone, other that Spotify itself might dislike it?
If the cabinet for storing blank paper that I don't care about (and it's my cabinet, not something entrusted to me for safeguarding) requires a passcode, then I'd both set the passcode to '0000000' or '123456', and write it on a post-it note right there.
Similarly, if some website or forum that I don't care about (and don't fear if someone or everyone accesses my account) starts for me to require an account+password that I don't want - then I'd both set the password to something trivial ('password' ?) and ensure that my browser stores it so I don't have to. In an ideal world, I wouldn't have that account/password at all - most of accounts listed in my browser password-list are accounts where some site forces me to keep a password that I don't want to 'keep an account', do 'personalization', etc.
For example, I have a (free) account on Spotify. Is there any good reason why I should have a secure password there? Is there any good reason why I shouldn't tweet that password to everyone, other that Spotify itself might dislike it?