Passwords suck. Here’s what you can (and can’t) do about it
dan tynan on Sep 19 2012 | Filed under: Da Web, Future Tech, Identity Theft, PC World, Privacy
Last June, 6.5 million Linked-In passwords were stolen by hackers and posted online. eHarmony lost 1.5 million passwords; Yahoo Voice another 450,000. Among the most common passwords used: 123456, welcome, and the ever popular “password.” The problem isn’t that these sites should have done a better job protecting user data (though they should have). It’s [...]
