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The massive Gawker password breach has kicked off a part-voluntary and part-mandatory wave of password changes.
A crook who gets into your email can get just about anywhere — and not all of them end up getting jacked around by me on Facebook Chat.
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Strangely enough, I got the LinkedIn one, but not the Gawker one.
I do have a Gawker account – it’s just using a different email and password than my LinkedIn.
I have my own way of making safe passwords that works for me. I do have a few that overlap, but not many.
I’m kinda laughing because I know I used a throwaway password for Gawker… at best, they might be able to get into a few other untrusted sites.
Will point out to you that McDonald’s was also hacked. Thieves got not only passwords, but names and birthdays.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BC5DP20101213
Thanks, Lucretia!
I didn’t know about the McDonald’s breach. (But if it’s the Happy Meal Birthday Club, it may be a while before those kids are old enough to get credit cards. Oops…)
And you’re the first non-Gawker-er to get the LinkedIn notice that I know about. We’ll see what LinkedIn tells us all later.
For iPhone users, MyKeePass is free and very easy to use. You can use the same master file as on your main computer, as I do. Even helps with simple things like ATM PINs and library card numbers.
Appreciate that, Wade. MyKeePass is indeed an iPhone port Keepass.
I neglected to mention that all of the various Keepass incarnations share the same database structure, and make secure transfer of those passwords easy between your authorized systems.
Some are okay with software — but there is something about having that physical USB key that makes others secure.
Ike,
I received the LinkedIn notice and have no login for Gawker, so another unrelated. Too many brain cells dying of old age for me to keep up with strong passwords. After Xmarks announced they were closing shop, I started using roboform, but it doesn’t play nice with Chrome. DropBox is fantastic. Grateful for the KeePass tip, I’m going to try it and hope it’s the last switch I make. I’ve used it for syncing across my own systems and for quick sharing files on projects.
(Unrelated – Trying to sign in here with Twitter repeatedly returned an error. )
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