Make Me Private

Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense.

THE best password is a long, nonsensical string of letters and numbers and punctuation marks, a combination never put together before. Some admirable people actually do memorize random strings of characters for their passwords — and replace them with other random strings every couple of months.

Then there’s the rest of us, selecting the short, the familiar and the easiest to remember. And holding onto it forever.

I once felt ashamed about failing to follow best practices for password selection — but no more. Computer security experts say that choosing hard-to-guess passwords ultimately brings little security protection. Passwords won’t keep us safe from identity theft, no matter how clever we are in choosing them.

That would be the case even if we had done a better job of listening to instructions. Surveys show that we’ve remained stubbornly fond of perennial favorites like “password,” “123456” and “LetMeIn.” The underlying problem, however, isn’t their simplicity. It’s the log-on procedure itself, in which we land on a Web page, which may or may not be what it says it is, and type in a string of characters to authenticate our identity (or have our password manager insert the expected string on our behalf).

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/technology/10digi.html?ref=technology

Ok just as it sounds.I have a friend who got a ticket for Identity theft, forgery I, and Criminal Possession of forged instrument I. We know its not going to be good but what is he facing. I don’t know the extent I did see that a check was returned unpaid refer to maker so I think he didn’t gain anything from this. He has been in trouble 2 years ago with a meth charge. I dont want to hear any I hope he goes to jail for forever. He knows he messed up and he is facing the consequences I was just wondering how long. so far everything says minimum 2years
We are in oregon

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