Changing password is actually useless by Barbora Misakova

Every one of us already had a chance to be spamming. Sending advertising or even more annoying and unimportant messages to your friends and colleagues will please neither you, nor them. Especially when you then have to send another, this time apologizing emails to them with explanation that it wasn’t actually you but some hacker who did it. Cyberattacks on the governmental level can be more dangerous as there are secret information that can be obtained and abused. But neither such a personal cyberattack is pleasant. Social networks such as Facebook or MySpace are alerting their users to change their passwords more often as a way of protection. But as Microsoft study s! hows, frequent password changes are useless. This study found that advice generally doesn’t make much sense especially when someone who obtains your new password will use it immediately. What they usually do anyway. It is like a crook was lifting a house key but was waiting until the lock is changed before. Instead of constant and regular changing password it would be better for you to think twice what kind of password would be the best. It shouldn’t be too short and too obvious. You shouldn’t betray your password to anyone and you neither should write it on sticky notes or piece of paper attached to your monitor or notice board near your computer. Maybe the best advice from all is: be careful what you write through the internet and if you really need to share something private, do it rather personally. It is maybe wasting more of your time, but when the secret will be betrayed, you know who is responsible.

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by Barbora Misakova for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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