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Admittedly LinkedIn isn't a critical application calling for people's most secure passwords People re-use passwords. Often it's not access to the LinkedIn acco
by rmc 14y ago
Admittedly LinkedIn isn't a critical application calling for people's most secure passwords
People re-use passwords. Often it's not access to the LinkedIn account that's the problem, but that that same password will give you access to their email account, after that, you have everything.
- michaelt 14y agoYes, you're right about that. I only included that proviso because I've seen people on HN report that, while they use a complicated, hard-to-remember password for important sites (gmail, paypal) they use weaker/easier to remember/reused passwords on less important sites (HN, reddit, facebook, linkedin). Depending on how widespread this behaviour is, while 90-95% of linkedin passwords were easily cracked, that might not generalise to all sites.