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I think people are reacting to what seems like an attack: the implication that having hundreds of accounts and not studiously pruning them is ‘pathological’. Bu
by thom 3y ago
I think people are reacting to what seems like an attack: the implication that having hundreds of accounts and not studiously pruning them is ‘pathological’. But I think your point is actually a valid one - yes, you can over time accumulate vast numbers of logins, but do you really need to hoard the login details? The majority of the passwords I have in 1Password are in the ‘Never Used’ section. I am definitely not going to spend the time to delete these accounts with the provider, but some I probably could have avoided creating in the first place and it’d probably improve my quality of life if I just delete the entry in 1Password and rely on email recovery or a new account if I ever went back. But, I’m not going to do that, because it’s really not much hardship and to be honest I appreciate the breadcrumb trail of my life on the internet for the past 30 years.
As for the security implications, if you want to hack the account to some magazine I was subscribed to 10 years ago, supply new payment details and reactivate my subscription, go wild. If you’re losing sleep about that sort of thing then it really _is_ pathological.
- nonrandomstring 3y agoSorry I should be more careful with my words. "Pathological" is one of those words that lives in both technical and psychological space and I was careless. I meant the security situation was pathological, not that the poster "is a nutter". My apologies to OP. If I am "attacking" anything it's this casual normalisation of over-extending, invoking more complexity and solutionism and misplaced trust in elaborate systems when simple everyday methods actually work well enough for 99% of cases.
- nonrandomstring 3y ago> As for the security implications, if you want to hack the account to some magazine I was subscribed to 10 years ago, supply new payment details and reactivate my subscription, go wild. Here. I suggest think again. There are many threat models where your innocuous grocery account from 10 years ago is a useful stage to a bigger hack. Can you remember all the details you entered there? Past addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses?
- thom 3y agoIf you want my address you can just google it, I'm not going to spend any time worrying about it.