Weak Passwords and Old People PSA

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Originally Posted by Danth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

....And then, at the end, you suffer identity theft anyway because the place you did business with kept your personal info in an unsecured plain text file. This actually happened to the wife years ago.

I don't worry overmuch about my passwords. Instead I do as little online business as possible, sign up for the fewest things possible, and never use the same computer for online transactions as I use for general browsing. I regard that as the best I can do.

Danth

Probably not a bad policy, but still at the least I'd make the passwords as secure as possible, because that's just a little better than nothing and hackers mostly get the low hanging fruit and all. Plus it costs literally nothing to have a strong password.