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SCAMS What's Your Password? Ahh, Nevermind ... Crooks & Kids Can Find It Easy Enough November 29, 2012  By Dave CourvoisierVoice Actor & TV News Anchor Like many people, I use the same password too often on too many sites. I DO take care to use complicated passwords (combination of upper/lower case, numbers, symbols, and long strings) for my crucially important sites such as financial information. Luckily I have an almost RainMan-like ability to remember these strings (on the flip side, I’m the world’s WORST at remembering names!). For all my social networking accounts, and anything else that requires a password, I have 6 or 7 pat password strings that I rotate from time to time, and every once in a while, I’ll introduce a new one. I change these randomly. And I thought that was pretty good. But it’s not. A recent Wired Magazine article: Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore, has upset my veil of security. I suggest you take the time to read this excellent article right now. It should scare you. It did me. Luckily, the article comes with some common-sense ideas for making things tougher for the bad guys, although, in general, it makes a great case for getting rid of the paradigm of password-use altogether. --------------------------------------------  ABOUT DAVE Dave
Courvoisier is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, writer, producer, voice actor, and
the main weeknight news anchor on KLAS-TV, Channel 8, the Las Vegas CBS
affiliate. He also writes Voice-Acting in Vegas, a popular daily blog of voice over industry and technology experiences and observations.
Email: CourVO@CourVO.com Web: www.courvo.com Blog: www.courvo.biz
Twitter: http://twitter.com/courvo TV bio: KLAS-TV bio link |
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Tami
11/29/2012 at 1:31 AM
Oy! Am I ever in trouble!
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