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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 261163" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Just a suggestion here, maybe I'm a bit paranoid about security, but I would suggest we not give examples of the sort of thing we're using as passwords. husband did a private demonstration to one of our online friends before Christmas, we PM'd the results to her, but he "white-hatted" her purely from data available online. And this was someone who claimed to be secure, to not release any personal identifying data online. If she had hinted even to this extent at what she used for passwords, we could have hacked a great deal deeper. As it was, we scared her a great deal because we got her name, her kids' names, her address, a lot of other information. If there had been a Google Earth photo of her house, we'd have been literally peering in her living room window, from the other side of the world. </p><p></p><p>And we're white hats. You don't want a black hat on your tail, and unfortunately a lot of us are at risk of this, purely due to the problems having a difficult child exposes us to. I know I have ex-teachers of difficult child 3's tracking whatever I write in my name because they know how unimpressed with them I have been. There are a lot of people who know enough about me, to be able to work out what my passwords are likely to be if I give out the slightest hint.</p><p></p><p>What I will say on the topic of passwords - this is fairly general, but if you have a set of common questions and your responses, on a text file somewhere or better still as a printout, it is fairly easy to give yourself a hint as to your answer, a hint that only you would know the answer to. For example, if the identifying question is, "What is the name of the dog you had as a child?" and you had about six dogs, your hint could be, "the one with a black nose." Most good identifiers will ask you for such a hint, if you have your own list of possible questions and hints prepared ahead of time, it can make it easier for you to keep track of them, to remember them and to have different ones for different account and purposes (which will help boost your security). Having the same password for everything is very risky - if a black hat discovers your password you can not only find your bank accounts emptied, but your entire identity stolen. It's one thing to be cleaned out, but to be cleaned out and with a criminal record not of your own doing, would be a huge shock.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, just a suggestion - let's be careful.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 261163, member: 1991"] Just a suggestion here, maybe I'm a bit paranoid about security, but I would suggest we not give examples of the sort of thing we're using as passwords. husband did a private demonstration to one of our online friends before Christmas, we PM'd the results to her, but he "white-hatted" her purely from data available online. And this was someone who claimed to be secure, to not release any personal identifying data online. If she had hinted even to this extent at what she used for passwords, we could have hacked a great deal deeper. As it was, we scared her a great deal because we got her name, her kids' names, her address, a lot of other information. If there had been a Google Earth photo of her house, we'd have been literally peering in her living room window, from the other side of the world. And we're white hats. You don't want a black hat on your tail, and unfortunately a lot of us are at risk of this, purely due to the problems having a difficult child exposes us to. I know I have ex-teachers of difficult child 3's tracking whatever I write in my name because they know how unimpressed with them I have been. There are a lot of people who know enough about me, to be able to work out what my passwords are likely to be if I give out the slightest hint. What I will say on the topic of passwords - this is fairly general, but if you have a set of common questions and your responses, on a text file somewhere or better still as a printout, it is fairly easy to give yourself a hint as to your answer, a hint that only you would know the answer to. For example, if the identifying question is, "What is the name of the dog you had as a child?" and you had about six dogs, your hint could be, "the one with a black nose." Most good identifiers will ask you for such a hint, if you have your own list of possible questions and hints prepared ahead of time, it can make it easier for you to keep track of them, to remember them and to have different ones for different account and purposes (which will help boost your security). Having the same password for everything is very risky - if a black hat discovers your password you can not only find your bank accounts emptied, but your entire identity stolen. It's one thing to be cleaned out, but to be cleaned out and with a criminal record not of your own doing, would be a huge shock. Anyway, just a suggestion - let's be careful. Marg [/QUOTE]
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