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I spent the afternoon working with colleagues on a project involving a learning management system.\u00a0 We are coming off summer break and most of the participants had not logged in for three months.\u00a0 A few of them had forgotten their passwords.<\/p>\n
Many got right in because they use the same password for this system as for all systems – university email, yahoo email, calendar, online grade book, student course registration, online banking and that account on the server used to send everyone holiday greeting cards.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the number of services requiring a password,\u00a0no one can know\u00a0how many times a generic password can circle the earth and hit servers that should never be trusted with “secret” information.\u00a0 On a typical day I use accounts at Protopage, Slashdot, Digg, Delicious, Flickr, Google plus all my work related sites.\u00a0 I use a web-based password generator<\/a> to create strong passwords and Roboform<\/a> to keep track of all of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n With all the identity theft going on, using an assortment of strong passwords just seems obvious to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I spent the afternoon working with colleagues on a project involving a learning management system.\u00a0 We are coming off summer break and most of the participants had not logged in for three months.\u00a0 A few of them had forgotten their … Continue reading