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This reminds me of the good old days of searching Limewire for "password .txt .rtf .doc". It's incredible what folders and documents people would foolishly shar
by taitems 16y ago
This reminds me of the good old days of searching Limewire for "password .txt .rtf .doc". It's incredible what folders and documents people would foolishly share.
But the most important thing I learned is this: email account passwords are worth their weight in gold! As soon as you have an email address and password, you have access to a searchable list of logins and password confirmations.
This is even more worrying than the example the comic utilises. You still have to (manually or automatically) go to these sites and guess the username (is it bob101 or is it 101bob this time?) and try the various passwords. As soon as you're into an email account you have quite the dangerous list. All of which are confirmed and ready to go.
-- This is entirely a work of fiction, and in no means describes my teenage years.
- VMG 16y agoalso most sites have a "forgot password?" link that works by sending you an email. In this sense, the email password is the master password.
- nodata 16y agoand the e-mail password is recoverable by guessing the answer to a weak security question, so in a sense a weak security question answer is the master password.