Negative Space: passwords
- Allow men to impersonate exes, transgender activists say
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Some transgender activists want banks to reduce the security on bank accounts, enabling abusive exes to access their victims’ bank accounts.
- Embarrassing password tricks
- Never trust anyone over 30 characters.
- How does Apple’s supposed anti-conservative bias matter?
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If you think Apple has a bias against conservatives or Christians, you definitely don’t want Apple to build a tool its employees can use to help guess an iPhone’s password.
- I forgot my password
- If you’ve forgotten your password, you’ll need to contact the webmaster.
- Insecurity questions on phones and at banks
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How important are the last four digits of your social security number? That and a high school yearbook can get a hacker your bank account.
- Is my Comic Ground password secure?
- While your password is stored securely, it is not sent over the net securely.
- The most popular passwords at school
- We are still lying about passwords to our community. What are the most popular first words in passwords?
- Password Guesses
- If someone can guess the password for the administrative account, they can get root access by coming up to the computer and using it. Any administrative account should have a very difficult password, and that password should never be used in an insecure setting.
- Security is hard, and 2FA is not the answer
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Is 2-factor authentication the magic bullet in security? Not unless we solve the real problem, which is that people always take the easy way out—and that includes service providers.
- Security questions will always be insecure
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Insecurity questions are insecure because their purpose is to allow access to someone who does not know the access credentials. This trait is shared by zero or one person who has forgotten their password, and an infinitude of people who never knew it in the first place—because they shouldn’t have access.
