DAG>  _lot_ of people that don't bother to use a secure

 ...

 DAG>  password don't bother to use a _unique_ password with the
 DAG>  plethora of different sites that a person has to supply
 DAG>  login credentials to these days.  Even the script kiddies
 DAG>  (people like myself, when I was in my early teens) know
 DAG>  this kind of stuff.  So when they crack one set of login
 DAG>  credentials, they use the information in that file (your
 DAG>  first name, last name, login string, password, anything
 DAG>  else they can glean from that server) to check if you
 DAG>  have accounts on any similiar, or even dissimilar,
 DAG>  mainstream sites where lots of people connect to.  Poof,
 DAG>  there's another handful.  What if one of those is your
 DAG>  bank?  Follow the chains of logic and you'll see that

 I have two levels of passwords. Those that involve money get
 higher security.

 DAG>  they can run off to a lot of other places as well. Doing
 DAG>  that kind of stuff can make you end up out on the street
 DAG>  broke and homeless.  Doing that kind of stuff can let
 DAG>  people impersonate you and put you away for things you
 DAG>  never did.  When you really think about it, the

 Of course, one way to put a crimp in that is to hold the people
 who accept those cracked passwords and give out credit cards
 etc. If you don't see the person in person, don't give him a
 card.

 OTOH, I had a scenario like that, all they needed was my credit
 card number. It was easy to show it was fake, and I lost
 nothing, but closed out that card. Next time it happened I
 called them to complain, and esp since the card they gave the
 money out on was the one I had canceled. Apparently it was an
 inside the card company job.



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