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While we'd all like to see intelligent comments posted under your name, the issue here extends beyond this site. Where else have you used that password? What is
by justinschuh 14y ago
While we'd all like to see intelligent comments posted under your name, the issue here extends beyond this site. Where else have you used that password? What is the commonality with your password on different sites? If you're so confident that you're safe, why don't you just change your password right now and post the old one?
- brudgers 14y agoIf I was using a common password across multiple sites, that's the security issue, assuming of course that I engaged in the additional poor practice of using a common password for both sensitive and trivial uses. But regardless of how one slices and dices it, my HN account does not contain sensitive information and the consequences of a security breech of my account are trivial. HN is not Wells Fargo. After reading the grandparent comment about wanting my karma I changed my password for the first time since joining. But rest assured, the old password demonstrated how low value access to my HN login is. It's foolish to introduce security where none is required, and even more foolish to introduce the overhead of a security apparatus which doesn't meaningfully increase security.