Ubuntu Forums - FYI

[pete smout]

On 23/07/13 19:31, Kent Borg wrote:
> On 07/23/2013 01:50 PM, Bob wrote:
>> Everyone does not reuse passwords, I don't, only lazy or ignorant
>> people reuse passwords. 
> 
> In other words almost everyone with very, very, very few exceptions.
> 
> Okay, I admit there is a tiny minority of people who don't reuse
> passwords.  (Including me.)
> 
> Other than a few geeks I know from online, and my mother-in-law (because
> I told her to), I don't know anyone else who doesn't reuse passwords.
> 
> But if I am allowed a non-zero epsilon in my value of "everyone", I
> stand by my assertion. And it needs to change.
> 
> -kb
> 
> P.S. Help fight the battle: Please contradict all who repeat the
> obsolete admonishment to never write down a password. That advice became
> obsolete once we started to have multiple accounts on different systems.
> 
You are right, until last year I still held by what I was taught 15-20
years ago, not to write psswd's down! I learnt the hard way!!! Now I
never use the same password twice and have a note book (paper one very
19th century) sat next to my PC with ALL psswd's noted in it, and all
the important ones in my head (which of course you can never remember at
the correct time, but that is my faulty software, and I am still trying
to debug).

Please I urge anyone on this list to change their passwords To something
unique, it is *FAR LESS HASSLE THAN HAVING EVERYTHING HACKED* by some
individual / company :)

Pete