Password Protection

[espmartin]

Without giving up your personal security, I wanted to ask
you all if you regularly think about your online security?

Password protection used in protecting your online accounts
is very important, and also as important is changing your
passwords for those accounts. So how many of you:

• Change your password regulary (every 3 months or so)?
• Have more than one password used for multiple accounts?
• Use the same password for every account, and never change it?

 

[temi]

I don't change my password every 3 months but for the very essential places I login to I do. I login to over 20 accounts and I tend to get the password mixed up when I change them regularly but the two 4 logins I use regularly, I do change my access info every 2-3 months.

 

[Shadab]

# Change your password regularly (every 3 months or so)?

I change the password regularly of some important accounts,
like my primary mail addresses, payment processors, admin logins, etc..

But for other accounts, I rarely change pass.

# Use the same password for every account, and never change it?

Nope. That would be a big mistake.
As, in case a particular account's security gets compromised, then my other accounts too would be at risk of being hacked.

 

[Bionic_Woman]

I do change my password kind of regularly. Usually around the two month mark and only more often if it warrants it.

 

[espmartin]

I'll be the first to admit that I need to change mine
I've seen bad hacks that could of been prevented by simple things such as a password
change...