I'm guilty of this...

While learning how to work on computers, I was taught to change the password once a month or even once a week. Ever since I signed up for SL, I never changed my password until last night. So I am guilty for trusting something so vulnerable. With real dollars being put into the game I think this is really important. Sure SL was hacked, but what if only one person hacked only my account. Linden labs wouldn't know about it. So here I promise to change my password more frequently than once a year

It's happening so much these days to so many companys it's getting down right depressing thinking about how little security these online companys actually use for our sensitive information.

I am guilty of the same thing at times I forget or am just to lazy to change them which is my responsibility not the companys but still... why do they use programs that are so easy or so well known to be cracked by script kiddys and yes it's usually 12 year old punks that got it off a warez site not true hackers.

I must admit i change mine every month and never use the correct answer to any security question I only remember because i get it drummed into me at work with work systems.

I do feel sorry for those that have forgotten etc, but hopefully when they get back on they will remember this Friday and be more careful in the future and remember that a PC is not a high security bank vault as even those, do get broken into now and then.

I always used the same password for everything up until last year i started using different variations of the same word. Since yesterday i'm using a different password entirely. Starting now i use a different password for each type of thing. My passwords are painted into my Desktop wallpaper so i can remember them lol. Nobody comes into my room so how would that be discovered? I'm even changing it on other forums, my email accounts, and even other MMO's i play. Why is it that i never had these problems with any other MMO developing company? Not even SOE was a careless. :/

HAHAHA! Great Idea Yiffy!

BAD IDEA! spyware often takes "screen-snapshots" which would include your desktop. Better yet, print the thing out and put it on the wall behind your computer. (under a poster?)

No where is safe anymore, not even our desktops!
Quick Yiffy, hide under your computer table and wait for the apocalypse!

Reformat our hard drives and turn them off and take them offline ............. No wait then i cant log in here ahhhh well i will take the risks and stay in SL ROFLMAO

Because nobody would ever think of looking under a poster!

My partner works in IT and data security, and literally cannot believe what he sees on a daily basis at work -- people with printouts on the wall behind their computer or Post-Its actually stuck on the monitor with all their passwords on it.

You may not think anybody goes into your room, but when someone finally does there's everything for the intruder to see.

Maybe start with putting the printout between pages 767 and 768 of War and Peace on your bookshelf for starters, but even that's not safe enough.

The computers i use for SL are behind a router. As far as i know it would have to be one heck of a hack... I also have a anti-spyware apps that monitor everthing in the background. :/ I don't have a webcame (by choice) so i don't see why i'd have to hide anything behind a poster hehe.

Hehe nobody writes things on paper anymore, or engraves passwords on walls, or skin..eh nevermind hehe

Hehe yes lets write our passwords on our skins along the butt cheaks. Since we might be forced to wear undies, nobody will know. XD Some people wont look there anyway.

This is not considered best practice anymore. It only causes users to write it down in an easily accessible place, which reduces security. Either that or they just increment a sequence number on the end of it, or something else easily guessable.

Passwords should be changed probably once a year.

Whoever did it is probably still scratching thier heads trying to figure out what language my password WAS.

Bulk erasers!