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Do Passwords Even Matter Anymore?
New York Post ^ | November 12, 2017 | John Crudele VIEW AUTHOR ARCHIVE EMAIL THE AUTHOR GET AUTHOR RSS FEED November 12, 2017 | 12:14am

Posted on 11/13/2017 2:11:11 PM PST by nickcarraway

Dear John: A question: In the grand scheme of things, what is the point of having a password?

Equifax gets hacked, Yahoo gets hacked. I don’t put my mother’s maiden name or my Social Security number on any of my password-protected accounts because those who do provide such information seem to get hacked.

Passwords provide a false sense of security. Oh, and make sure your password includes letters, numbers and a certain number of digits, blah, blah, blah, so it is difficult to remember and difficult to compromise. Yeah, sure! M.K.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: computersecurity; crime; identitytheft; passwords
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To: nickcarraway

I like to keep mine simple so I can remember it - password.


21 posted on 11/13/2017 5:15:13 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Gideon7

I just use Summer123


22 posted on 11/13/2017 8:58:54 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: I want the USA back

“A year of free monitoring is a joke. Monitor what? The information is already out there!”

They just monitor to see if anybody is using that information that got loose in the wild.


23 posted on 11/13/2017 9:04:50 PM PST by CJ Wolf (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
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