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Who are "we"? What is a good way of educating every service user ever that password reuse can ruin their lives and that human generated passwords are weak? Scho
by teolandon 9y ago
Who are "we"? What is a good way of educating every service user ever that password reuse can ruin their lives and that human generated passwords are weak? School? Parents?
New users are thrown into the internet and they find out they have to use an email, and are usually turned towards Gmail, and then they have to use a password. They probably already had a password on their laptops or phones, which are harder to break into because they need physical access to crack, but the new user doesn't know that people can and might remotely try to gain access to their online email service. So they use the same password they had on their laptops. Then they have to sign up for a ton of other services, so they need passwords for them as well. The easiest thing to do is to reuse your password, or slightly modify it.
If people don't know why it's bad to reuse passwords, they won't even think about getting a password manager. Yes, it is very simple and user-friendly nowadays, but it's seemingly a lot of work to change all your past passwords, and to some people it might be even scarier to hide all your passwords to all your accounts behind a single password.
I'm not very familiar with middle and high school curriculums nowadays, but I feel like security is a topic that must be included. A crazy amount of people use the internet and build their whole online personas or store a lot of their personal and important information in a very wrong and insecure way, just because there's nothing to stop them, and that's the easy way.
- rad_gruchalski 9y ago"We" as the community who gives them a reason to create these accounts. Whatever system that is. > If people don't know why it's bad to reuse passwords, they won't even think about getting a password manager. Yes, it is very simple and user-friendly nowadays, but it's seemingly a lot of work to change all your past passwords, and to some people it might be even scarier to hide all your passwords to all your accounts behind a single password. Maybe we should all make an effort then. Give them instructions on why and how to use a password manager. Before they create an account. It just a high level idea, not very well thought out.