‘That isn’t just my password for Comcast, it’s my password for everything that is not tied to my credit card,’ Mr. Andreyo said in an interview. ‘It’s one thing to publish a credit card number, but to hand over user IDs and passwords for accounts is another. Someone could just go in and pull up all your archived messages, and then they have everything about you.’
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Passwords of 8,000 Comcast Customers Exposed - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com A reminder of why it’s a bad idea to use the same password everywhere: the more places it’s used, the more likely it’s going to be compromised. Academic: I’d love to see the results of a study that treat this behavior as a personal MTBF test. |
