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...not to be mean, but if you reuse passwords without at least having 2 of them (one for secure, money related stuff and another for everything else), you deser
by nnq 14y ago
...not to be mean, but if you reuse passwords without at least having 2 of them (one for secure, money related stuff and another for everything else), you deserve having your account cleaned and identity stolen.
Considering the world we leave in, I think that "basic personal informational security", like not reusing passwords, not executing email attachments and not falling for basic social engineering scams should be mandatory thought in schools starting from 10 year olds, and have something like "medium personal information security" (with knowledge of what a secued connection - green browser bar is, what a digital signature and key based authentication or multi-factor auth are) mandatory for all people handling other's personal information, even for the lowest public functionaries. These things should be drilled down into peoples' heads not matter they want to learn it or not, just as you don't ask your 7 year old whether he wants to learn to read and write, you just tell him he has to. It shouldn't matter whether you're a literature major or maybe you haven't even graduated high school, but if you have anything to do with handling others information - and 90% of people do have - you should know basic infosec just as you need to know to read and write! It's ugly, but we're living in an ugly world and in the middle of a war, even if it's invisible, and we should adapt to it!
- jiggy2011 14y agoEven people who follow a sensible password policy could fall victim if a site that they trust is compromised and their personal information is used against them in part of a bigger scam. The problem with providing Infosec education is that the threats change faster than we could reasonably hope to keep people up to date with them and even programmers struggle to truly understand it all.