Thursday, 24 January 2008

Password Lost?

No. Taking a look to a current research (ReadWriteWeb reported about) by a digital communications agency, 61% percent uses the same password for their online activities.

From the first view this seems not being critical. You create music at v-band.de, there's nothing to loose, you share your photos online, there's no loose, you update your blog on blogger.com - there's no loose. STOP!

If you use the same password for all these things, I'll explain you how it would become VERY critical for you:

If anyone from the photo-share community finds out your password it's easy to find further stuff by you using goolge and search for your screenname. They'll find your mySpace-Profile, your videos on YouTube and your Blogger.com account.

Still nothing critical? Sure?

Do you know that you need to login to Blogger using a Google Account? Do you know that you could buy AdWords, use GMail, see WebStats, join Groups and many more just using this one Account?

That's an high impact for your privacy - same with using a Microsoft Passport account. You could buy software, leave expensive support requests, check mails, use MSN and many more with just one simple account.

You could reduce your privacy risk with using a own secure password for each service (e.g. build a sentence as "Today I take my dog and put it in the car", take the first letters of each word "TItmdapiitc" add the year e.g. 2008 = "TItmdapiitc2008" add one special sign e.g. "TItmdapiitc2008!" and you got a secure password very easy).

1 Comments:

Anonymous said...

That's helpful and great to know!