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by stephengillie
4859 days ago
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I've been using a password manager to manage my super-secure password system for a few weeks. Since I started, my friends have been calling me paranoid. What disturbs me about this, why I feel it's relevant, is that these are people with the technical ability to configure their own minecraft servers and run jailbreak/root(?) hacks on consoles. Almost all of them have at least taken 1 or 2 C++ college courses or Codecademy courses. These people aren't technically challenged, nor are they Luddites. They should be aware of how insecure most passwords are, but they feel it's not relevant to their life. Any suggestions on how to deal with that problem -- people calling you paranoid because you don't use an easy to remember password on all sites? |
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They think you are paranoid because they think that you are worried about Mark Zuckerburg logging in to your Google account or something along those lines. Explain that websites get compromised all the time - you could bring up the LinkedIn (http://lifehacker.com/5916177/65-million-linkedin-accounts-m...) or the Gawker (https://gawker.com/5712615/commenting-accounts-compromised-+...) compromise if they use one of those sites, and that when criminals get things like your Google passwords, they will often delete your data and try to scam your friends out of money - there are many stories, here is one about it: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/e-mail-scammers-ask...