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[Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks



On 02/17/2015 12:25 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
> Agreed - however - in my experience, there is a high correlation 
> between the use of bad passwords, and the use of insecure systems. The 
> people who choose bad passwords are the same ones who email it to 
> other people, or stick their ssh keys in dropbox. 

I think the only way to fix the password problem is to get people to 
discard security theater and think and understand and be disciplined. 
But if you can fix the password problem, I think the next problems 
~start~ to fix themselves.

But I don't know, because everyone does passwords wrong.

-kb




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