Comments on: The Password Post-It Conundrum http://normanhollyn.com/2008/07/07/the-password-post-it-conundrum/ Thoughts on media, technology, the film business and beyond Thu, 05 May 2011 03:49:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Norman http://normanhollyn.com/2008/07/07/the-password-post-it-conundrum/comment-page-1/#comment-352 Norman Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:10:29 +0000 http://normanhollyn.wordpress.com/?p=441#comment-352 And, yet, many people still worry about putting all of their password information (no matter how skimpy it is) up in the cloud. What your company has to worry about, encrypted or not, is the perception of a large percentage of net users (not unjustifiably) that hackers are really smart and that the only reason why they haven't attacked any one given technology or site is if that site is too small to be worth the investment. What people think is that if your company, god willing, gets big enough to attract serious notice and have millions of users, is that it will become a bigger target for hacking. And then all of that information that they've entrusted you with will fall into someone else's hands. I believe that these fears are, though overblown, with some basis in reality. But even if it were completely baseless, it would still be important to have a suite of solutions, not just one sitting up there in the cloud. And, yet, many people still worry about putting all of their password information (no matter how skimpy it is) up in the cloud. What your company has to worry about, encrypted or not, is the perception of a large percentage of net users (not unjustifiably) that hackers are really smart and that the only reason why they haven’t attacked any one given technology or site is if that site is too small to be worth the investment.

What people think is that if your company, god willing, gets big enough to attract serious notice and have millions of users, is that it will become a bigger target for hacking. And then all of that information that they’ve entrusted you with will fall into someone else’s hands.

I believe that these fears are, though overblown, with some basis in reality. But even if it were completely baseless, it would still be important to have a suite of solutions, not just one sitting up there in the cloud.

]]> By: Louise http://normanhollyn.com/2008/07/07/the-password-post-it-conundrum/comment-page-1/#comment-351 Louise Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:33:51 +0000 http://normanhollyn.wordpress.com/?p=441#comment-351 You bring up excellent points about how people don't know how to deal with passwords anymore. I work for www.passpack.com, which is an online password manager and we are always trying to inform people of all the exact points in your post - post-its, password reuse, password fatigue. There is a solution - keeping your passwords safe in an application that is designed to do just that. Preserving our privacy on the web is vital in a Web 2.0 world. The internet is only as safe as we make it, so let's make it safe. Louise You bring up excellent points about how people don’t know how to deal with passwords anymore.

I work for http://www.passpack.com, which is an online password manager and we are always trying to inform people of all the exact points in your post – post-its, password reuse, password fatigue.

There is a solution – keeping your passwords safe in an application that is designed to do just that.

Preserving our privacy on the web is vital in a Web 2.0 world. The internet is only as safe as we make it, so let’s make it safe.

Louise

]]> By: matt http://normanhollyn.com/2008/07/07/the-password-post-it-conundrum/comment-page-1/#comment-350 matt Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:02:54 +0000 http://normanhollyn.wordpress.com/?p=441#comment-350 somewhere on the web there is a very informative website detailing how to maintain complex passwords on a post it while keeping it secure. the basic process is this: if you're password is jdsjf938Hh, you write it on a post-it jdAsjfA938Hh and keep it in your brain that whenever you have a capital A, you don't type it. works great. somewhere on the web there is a very informative website detailing how to maintain complex passwords on a post it while keeping it secure. the basic process is this: if you’re password is jdsjf938Hh, you write it on a post-it jdAsjfA938Hh and keep it in your brain that whenever you have a capital A, you don’t type it. works great.

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