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Originally Posted by freecartoonporn
please tell me they stored encrypted passwords and not in plaintext.
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If there is money involved, change your password every 12 months anyway.
Many times we do not learn of data breaches till long after the fact.
If I were working with larger amounts, I would change it every 4 months.
Never use your true birthdate where the folks you are giving it to have no real need for it.
Use the same fictitious date everywhere else so you can remember it as needed.
Use different passwords between what you use for really important stuff like banking and lame accounts like email, but keep them long and memorable in any case.
email is as important as banking cause if anyone gets a hold of your email, they may be able to change any of your other accounts without you knowing. Using cell text conformations is probably good, but I don't like it for some reason. Use both email and text if you are going to use them if you can. Having worked with voip systems the last 15 years, I don't exactly trust the full capability of the voice/data networks.
The point is, a person can pick up enough info from little pieces sprinkled around in lame sites to make everything else exposable. Limit your footprint where you can and skew data where it does not matter.
Your mothers maiden name, dob, last 4ssn can get you a full ssn. Your done !
(even less in some cases)
Facial ID is the coming thing. I don't like it either. Nor the idea we all have to give up our full biometric data to live.
Face ID, retina scan, finger print... perhaps soon DNA.
The face id goes to a larger 'track-ability' issue .
I can see the future of a insurance co raising your rates because you go in a bar or eat fast food more than twice a month etc etc etc
Until we have some really good rules on data privacy and punishment for breaching and hacks, we should not be using any biometrics for anything.
It all can be used against us in ways we have yet to see.
Who can collect it, can they store it, can they sell it... what about the hacks to it's storage.
Some large retailers have been experimenting in store with them. Almost all cams in banks and other security use have a new variety that make extracting biometric data from them easy and very accurate as those in your state BMV's/FBI data warehouses.
Facebook has been working with it for years on user photo and video even on old uploads.
That's how the FBI is finding folks so much faster from security footage and facebooks help.
...wait till those get hacked...it's only a matter of time...it may have already happened.