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What's the point...

Posted Jun 7, 2012 2:41 UTC (Thu) by decaffeinated (guest, #4787)
In reply to: What's the point... by daney
Parent article: 8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website (ars technica)

I know the answer to this one:

a) suppose you chose a standard username for all of the accounts that you care about (could be, for example, your e-mail addr).

b) suppose you used the same password for all of the accounts that you care about.

Suppose all of the accounts that you care about include:

linkedin.com
your_cking_acct.com
your_brokerage_acct.com

Ooops. Okay...I know LWN readers don't do this, but I'll bet other netizens do.


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What's the point...

Posted Jun 10, 2012 10:04 UTC (Sun) by nicolas@jungers (✭ supporter ✭, #7579) [Link]

Well, my slashdot account an my (now cancelled) LinkedIn account share the same password, and... my LWN account.

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