This lunchtime I was treated to one of the most bizarre spectacles I've witnessed in the atrium of Building 2 at work, and that's saying something. The entire centre of the atrium had been cleared, for Team GB's Karate 'arm' to demonstrate some of their skills to us.
These guys were really impressive, and the shouts that accompanied some of the kicks and punches must have scared the hell out of some of the folks working upstairs in Building 2 who hadn't noticed the signs that this thing was going to take place.
This on it's own would have been pretty cool, but it was actually in aid of Get Safe Online Week, and as such, some of the poor souls from Team GB had to read out monologues from a script on online safety.
I'm fairly sure it's safe to say that their passion laid with their (superb) martial arts, rather than preventing phishing, so it was rather surreal to hear karate shouts, see a karate demonstration, and have the entire thing overlaid with a less-than-enthusiastic set of helpful tips on staying safe online. And all this when I was just going for lunch...
Scary stat of the day (taken from some brochure which didn't quote its sources, pinch of salt recommended):
24% of folks online use the same password for every single website they visit.
Scarier stat:
100% of folks references in the above statistic were stupid enough to admit this.
Monday 12 November 2007
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Yes, it was indeed scary.
What's the problem with it? If no-one knows your password?
If any one of those websites is compromised, then your password to everything else is suddenly available.
Do you really know how secure the systems on the backend of all those websites are?
I'm sure PayPal.com has great security, but how about that horribly designed site you just signed up to to download a new screensaver from?
Then there's also the issue that if you only have one password, someone only has to look over your shoulder once. You only have to log in from an unsecured connection once...and on - plenty of things that can go wrong at your end too.
Have a different password for every website (at least those of any importance), and have that password over 8 characters long, using uppercase, lowercase, characters, numbers and *no* real words :)
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