Passwords
Passwords are a simple idea, with which comes mass security which is rather an essential online. Its not like i can walk up to the front of my blog and put the door key in and hey presto, the little bit of metal from my pocket has logged me into the blog and i can write away. No i need a password, and this means remembering it surly not a big thing to do. However when you start to think about it, we have lots of these little simple things to remember, as most of you know I work in IT, (for those of you who didnt know, you now do, and sadly yes that makes me a bit of a geek, and im proud of it too) So i have the password for my email, the password for msn, the password for works username, various other work passwords, then the pin code to my mobile, the pin to my bank account...thats over 6 passwords, then there are all the different websites that we use, amazon, play, misco, dabs, mycomputerbits and so on, so we must be nearing 15. And now thanks to my taking up of a new years resolution to blogging, i have another, that makes 7.
I have logged in twice to my blog this year to post, once yesterday, with the debacle that was making a post and loosing it ... twice because i had the audacity to want to spell check it, and yes im fully aware that I have properly spelt audacity wrong! Both times I have had to use the “forgot my password” feature for it, as i had lost the ability to log in. Yesterday I was using the wrong password, today the wrong bloody username.
So what is the solution to this, one password for everything, well that’s just plain bonkers, if someone should get you password that’s everything amiss. Drop your phone and you have a phone bill for a gay porn chat line in Thailand (thank god for PAYG). Someone has already though logged into your emails and send that picture you forgot to delete to the world, your msn contacts have all been deleted and you money taken from the bank.
So whats my solution, well i could keep resetting the password for the blog for a week until i remember both the username and the password. Thats too simple though, I have just committed the cardinal sin. The biggy, I have written the username down in the name of the favourite’s link that I have made for my blog for quick access. So anyone able to get into my pc, only needs to see the favourites for my username, and then they have only got to get the password and they will be laughing.
Highly insecure, but I dint give a piddle, Im not going to ask for my password to be reset every day, Blogger will think im silly.
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Ranting over, I will get back to what I was trying to say yesterday, My Blog as you can see was made in late May 2006, and then wasn’t written in, it has (had) become one of the many blogs that aren’t updated. While reading an article on the Beeb about blogging in mid December, :$ ok late December, I didn’t return to work until the 23rd after a rather painful knee injury obtained while playing badminton, in June, I was signed off for two months after getting to the point that I couldn’t bend my leg to get into the car. Back to the point. I read an article on the Beeb saying that next year, which is now this year, there would be approx 100,000,000 new blogs made, yet there was already 200 million, so twice as many blogs which are no longer updated. This was one of them! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6178611.stm) for those of you interested, here is said article.
That said I have started to update my blog, and will continue to do so. After telling a friend of the above saga they said that they had started to do a similar thing but in a diary, (which I am now thinking is a much better idea, I bet she didn’t have to spend thirty minutes trying to open the bloody first few pages!) Passwords...tshhh. So it was decided that at the end of the year we would get together have a few drinks and have a laugh over what is being written, however I get the feeling that they have the upper hand, mine is findable, and hers isn’t :@.
(HAHAHAHHA it did it again, some ietag.dll message popped up, i figured it wanted to install a feature for adding tags to the blog so I can search for individual posts. It gave me the do you want to navigate away from this page message, quick copy and paste and I have saved the above, thats it, no more trusting blogger, write in word, copy to blog, publish. Job done.)
Passwords are a simple idea, with which comes mass security which is rather an essential online. Its not like i can walk up to the front of my blog and put the door key in and hey presto, the little bit of metal from my pocket has logged me into the blog and i can write away. No i need a password, and this means remembering it surly not a big thing to do. However when you start to think about it, we have lots of these little simple things to remember, as most of you know I work in IT, (for those of you who didnt know, you now do, and sadly yes that makes me a bit of a geek, and im proud of it too) So i have the password for my email, the password for msn, the password for works username, various other work passwords, then the pin code to my mobile, the pin to my bank account...thats over 6 passwords, then there are all the different websites that we use, amazon, play, misco, dabs, mycomputerbits and so on, so we must be nearing 15. And now thanks to my taking up of a new years resolution to blogging, i have another, that makes 7.
I have logged in twice to my blog this year to post, once yesterday, with the debacle that was making a post and loosing it ... twice because i had the audacity to want to spell check it, and yes im fully aware that I have properly spelt audacity wrong! Both times I have had to use the “forgot my password” feature for it, as i had lost the ability to log in. Yesterday I was using the wrong password, today the wrong bloody username.
So what is the solution to this, one password for everything, well that’s just plain bonkers, if someone should get you password that’s everything amiss. Drop your phone and you have a phone bill for a gay porn chat line in Thailand (thank god for PAYG). Someone has already though logged into your emails and send that picture you forgot to delete to the world, your msn contacts have all been deleted and you money taken from the bank.
So whats my solution, well i could keep resetting the password for the blog for a week until i remember both the username and the password. Thats too simple though, I have just committed the cardinal sin. The biggy, I have written the username down in the name of the favourite’s link that I have made for my blog for quick access. So anyone able to get into my pc, only needs to see the favourites for my username, and then they have only got to get the password and they will be laughing.
Highly insecure, but I dint give a piddle, Im not going to ask for my password to be reset every day, Blogger will think im silly.
......
Ranting over, I will get back to what I was trying to say yesterday, My Blog as you can see was made in late May 2006, and then wasn’t written in, it has (had) become one of the many blogs that aren’t updated. While reading an article on the Beeb about blogging in mid December, :$ ok late December, I didn’t return to work until the 23rd after a rather painful knee injury obtained while playing badminton, in June, I was signed off for two months after getting to the point that I couldn’t bend my leg to get into the car. Back to the point. I read an article on the Beeb saying that next year, which is now this year, there would be approx 100,000,000 new blogs made, yet there was already 200 million, so twice as many blogs which are no longer updated. This was one of them! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6178611.stm) for those of you interested, here is said article.
That said I have started to update my blog, and will continue to do so. After telling a friend of the above saga they said that they had started to do a similar thing but in a diary, (which I am now thinking is a much better idea, I bet she didn’t have to spend thirty minutes trying to open the bloody first few pages!) Passwords...tshhh. So it was decided that at the end of the year we would get together have a few drinks and have a laugh over what is being written, however I get the feeling that they have the upper hand, mine is findable, and hers isn’t :@.
(HAHAHAHHA it did it again, some ietag.dll message popped up, i figured it wanted to install a feature for adding tags to the blog so I can search for individual posts. It gave me the do you want to navigate away from this page message, quick copy and paste and I have saved the above, thats it, no more trusting blogger, write in word, copy to blog, publish. Job done.)
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