Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Just Saying. . .


       Celebrities' smart phone photos sent to the "cloud" were being hacked and put on websites this week.   Digital security experts tell us don't use easily discovered words or names from your life as passwords or "security check" words.  Don't use any word in a dictionary as a password.  Computerized "password sniffers" can go through millions of words in no time and grab a word you're using.

       So how many of us will buy and use a password creator and storer that manufactures meaningless mixtures of numbers, letters, etc., for each password we need, to defy code breakers?

       Those of us who can't remember passwords in the first place, how likely are we to remember at some point what the "key" is to the password creator-storer, or where the device is itself?

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