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I can walk around a bad part of town at 2am, but if I get shot, I'm still going to be mad at the shooter. A mix of laziness, apathy and habit lead me to reuse
by tuna-piano 10y ago
I can walk around a bad part of town at 2am, but if I get shot, I'm still going to be mad at the shooter.
A mix of laziness, apathy and habit lead me to reuse that password on many sites. But I have 5+ email addresses, tons of shopping accounts, multiple banks, brokers, airlines, hotels, etc. I do use more secure passwords for other sites.
I really can't be bothered into using a password manager, so what's the alternative besides reusing passwords?
- pfg 10y ago> I really can't be bothered into using a password manager, so what's the alternative besides reusing passwords? The alternative is getting burned by password reuse repeatedly until you can be bothered, I would assume. Alternatively, you could cling to the hope that a more secure and more convenient authentication mechanism gets adopted somewhere in the next decade or two.
- saghm 10y ago> I can walk around a bad part of town at 2am, but if I get shot, I'm still going to be mad at the shooter. I'm not sure calling LinkedIn the shooter in this analogy is completely fair; maybe more like the cop two streets over getting a donut.
- Dylan16807 10y agoLinkedIn released data that made the twitter breach possible. Your version is far too innocent. If we want to continue the badly-fitting analogy... how about LinkedIn is a guy dropping crates of bullets all over, in a world where stolen bullets have no non-crime uses.