Penned Thoughts

Mark Pothier, Boston.com

This just confirms something I’ve long suspected. How the heck could regularly changing your password lead to better security? If someone gets a hold of it, they’re not gonna wait for you to change it before they break into your account.

Admittedly, I was a little too callous with online security up until a couple of months ago. I had one password for almost every single website I had an account on and that’s it. That was quite risky because if one of those websites’ data was compromised, my accounts on hundreds of other online locations would also be vulnerable.

Then I switched to 1Password and am currently in the process of changing all my passwords. It’s an arduous process but gives you a layer of extreme security and ensures that if one of your passwords gets exposed, all the others are still safely locked away in your 1Password vault.

And that, in my humble opinion, is all the security anyone needs. I’m not going to run around changing my passwords all the time. As the aforementioned study confirms, it’s nothing but a waste of time.

(via Instapaper)