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A comment on Show HN: My wife's email was hacked, I created an app to protect online accounts.

Re:Show HN: My wife's email was hacked, I created an app to ... by jbob2000 on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @11:27AM (#8694578)
I don't know the situation with your wife's email... but if she had a poor enough password that it was easy enough to hack OR if she didn't update her password after heartbleed etc., then why do you think she will be proactive enough to use LogDog?

(Obviously she will, because she's your wife, but the question is if people aren't proactive to keep their accounts safe, will they be proactive enough to use your service?)

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Re:Show HN: My wife's email was hacked, I created an app to ... by jeremysmyth on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @11:33AM (#8694629)
It's far, far more likely that she was phished or that she used the same password on a site that was compromised than that her email password was guessed or sniffed. (edit: of course, this is a general comment rather than any comment specific to OP's wife!)
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Re:Show HN: My wife's email was hacked, I created an app to ... by urb on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @11:30AM (#8694605)
That's the thing... It's easier for people to download an app than to keep up-to-date on security events and proactively update to higher entropy passwords.
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Re:Show HN: My wife's email was hacked, I created an app to ... by danielweber on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @11:47AM (#8694736)
It's a passive thing.
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