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"Some are in the middle, like my LinkedIn account, or my gmail account" Your email account is the golden key to all other accounts that send "forgot password"
by jasonkostempski 10y ago
"Some are in the middle, like my LinkedIn account, or my gmail account"
Your email account is the golden key to all other accounts that send "forgot password" links to it.
- rpgmaker 10y agoI don't use it myself but I would think that you wouldn't want your "professional" social network account to fall in the wrong hands either.
- eru 10y agoYou rightly put "professional" in quotes. For tech people, LinkedIn is just a way to sign up for recruiter courting.
- prof_hobart 10y agoYou don't, and it can be embarrassing. I've seen it happen with a colleague. But what happened was embarrassment, not their life savings being wiped out.
- 13of40 10y agoWhich is why I protect it. But not as hard as my bank account and not as soft as my fark account. Hence, "middle".
- inopinatus 10y agoI would recommend lofting your email authentication into the same protection category as your bank account: a) There is a nonzero probability that your bank can be socially engineered using information obtained from compromising your email account and anything that trusts it. b) An email account compromise implicitly means every service that resets/recovers through it has to be rekeyed. The subsequent cleaning of the stables can be messy, lengthy, and itself somewhat risky. In particular, if you haven't already, enable MFA. If your email provider does not support MFA, change your provider.