Ruh-Roh!

I’ve just logged in to my email and noticed a message from dominoes informing me that they have been hacked and user data has been leaked including passswords. I must immediately go change that password now before the russians access my account and see how many large MeatZZas I have consumed at 2am over the last 30 days! I franticly log in and change my password. Let’s see, my password was “Il0v3meSOMEpizzaP!E”, let me just change that to “1L6vePI22@!!!”.

Whew. Safe.

Or so I may have thought…

Next Friday when I go to log in to Dominoes for that sweet, sweet hawiian pie, I will not remember that password and I will starve to death. It is truly tragic. Thankfully, I will be dead and buried and will never be aware that I forgot that my original password, “Il0v3meSOMEpizzaP!E”, was also in use for my amazon account. And facebook, twitter, the bank of america, etsy, myspace, gmail, and a dozen other places strewn across the world wide web. Thankfully, I will be singing praises in glory, because if I weren’t, I’d be in a lot of trouble.

Side note

According to this site “Il0v3meSOMEpizzaP!E” isn’t as bad a password as I thought when I wrote the above fiction. It is still a bad password and should never be used.

Please use a password manager. Please have a unique password for each and every online account. The password manager can be used to generate, remember, and fill passwords for you.

Instead of an easily crackable, “1L6vePI22@!!!” which would take ~9 months to crack, you could and should be protecting your pizza order history behind, “gNLtoiwkBilJO8Nlt9X0sG^YNeh6W9h^”, which would take litteral centuries to brute force.

Think about it