Did you use the same password for all accounts?
By rj4pau
@rj4pau (215)
Malaysia
July 28, 2009 11:10am CST
Many people are so complacent in setting their password for all transactions which needed them to set one. But with so many things that need passwords to access for security reason, I didn't blame them for using the SAME identical password for all possible transaction. Maybe it is done differentiated by type of accounts. Maybe all emails uses same password. All MS Office files uses the same password. How about you?
4 responses
@SoftSeller (73)
• Canada
29 Jul 09
I don't use the same password for all sites. For people who have a hard time remembering their passwords (and therefore use the same password), I have a suggestion. Have the same root password and add something for every site. For example, if your root password is "abc123" and you are making a password for myLot, you could make it "abc123myLot" or "abc123mL" or something similar. This way each site will have a different password that is easily remembered. However, this is not foolproof as people can quickly figure out what your password might be at other sites. What will work even better is if you have different root passwords for different categories of sites. For example, if you use "abc123" for social networking, you might use "def456" for banking and financial services and "ghi789" for online store accounts and so on. The last bit of advice is that you should think of a scheme to come up with the add-on part of the password so no one can easily decipher it.
@greenline (14838)
• Canada
1 Aug 09
No , I do not use the same password for all my accounts. I have a number of email accounts, some related to my business activities, and some personal. I prefer to keep the passwords also different between business and personal. But, the important thing for me is to use PW's that I can easily remember. It gets very frustrating if one forgets the PW.
@fourthdimension (135)
• United States
28 Jul 09
I use different passwords for every account. Repeating passwords is a huge security risk. For instance, say a hacker breaks into a database on a site you registered on. The first thing he'll do is look up your registration info (email, IM, username, etc) and find all other sites that you registered on with that info. Then he'll try that same password on them all, knowing that over 80% of users use the same password for all accounts. Now he has access to your email, IM, ...and your entire online identity. Never reuse a password.
