In the future, you may never have to pick a password again, as Google’s Chrome may not only come up with the passwords you use, but also change them if it feels your accounts have been hacked.
If Kenneth G. Lieberthal were anything but a China expert at the Brookings institution, his travelling-in-China security procedures would read like the product of a paranoid mind that watched too many spy movies as a kid.
HTC has acknowledged that a software flaw on some of its Android phones means that they openly offer security credentials across the Wi-Fi networks they connect to.
As you should already know by now, today is Change Your Password Day. Maybe you’re overwhelmed. Maybe you need ideas. Well, what do the pros do? Your very own Gizmodo writers use the very best (and very worst) techniques.
Today is Gizmodo International Change Your Password Day! Time to be responsible and come up with some 64-character string of random shit you’ll forget. Or, you could just keep the password you already have and be fine. Let’s do that.
Hey, so, it’s Change Your Password Day. Which means you should like, change your password. Why are we asking people to do this? I probably have twice as many stupid accounts on a multitude of sites, services and forums than I did two years ago. And there’s a new thing to sign up for everyday.
Losing your password isn’t funny. Well, it’s not funny to you. To the rest of us, it can be hilarious. The sort of point-and-laugh hilarity that comes from losing access to a dating site right when you find the perfect girl. Comic artists have taken the pain, monotony and humiliation of dealing with passwords and created something we can all agree on. Your passwords suck.
Nice password you got there! Super complicated, I love it. You know who else loves it? Computers! Because by carefully crafted a string of alphanumerical gibberish that you need tattooed on your palm to remember, you’ve made a password much easier to crack than, say, four simple unrelated words. But hey, at least it feels safer, right? [xkcd]
The only person you can rely on to keep your password secure is yourself. And let me tell you, you’re probably not doing enough to keep number one safe. The reason: your special lump of letters, numbers and symbols are likely spread over too many sites, not long enough and probably too personal. Most of our passwords suck. And it’s kind of a big problem.
