--Originally published at #iTecGDA – METANOIA
Probably not, neither am I. At least that’s what I’ve learnt from watching Mr. Robot on Net(PirateBay)Flix. You are probably quite lazy with your passwords and have something like “hamburger1” or your name, or your birth date and I won’t judge you but I’ll tell you it can really screw up your life. I don’t know about you but if someone somehow got access to one of my emails they could get access to all of them, to my contacts, to my ITESM account, to my FB account, my videogames accounts (doesn’t sound that bad but at this point they are worth 10s of thousands of dollars because that’s all I do), my PayPal account and with that they could buy anything they want with my debit and credit cards.
There are some software meant to protect you from this but it’s regularly social engineering what gets you screwed, that or keyloggers. So why risk getting your life ruined in minutes for having an unsafe password? Because we are quite lazy and think it’s not gonna happen to us, and it’s probably not going to unless you are someone important or particularly dumb.
If you, like me, are quite lazy I recommend you use the same word in every password, a word you create yourself for example “trepctio” and then add three numbers you change depending on the site. That should be safe enough at least in my opinion. Good luck and hope you don’t get your Club Penguin account stolen!
