3 Reasons Why Choosing Our Password is an Important Task >>

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While searching on how to create a strong password, as always, I love to read other search results that catch the eye~~ (sometimes taking most of my searching time). It is a story about how fragile and vulnerable a password is. Poor thing.. :-( We must do something about our password, practically, about choosing them.

So, why choosing your own password is so important?

As an internet marketer, passwords is a very critical aspect for our business. Password is our primary key to open our email, bank accounts, twitter, social sites, or maybe, to a certain degree for our success. If anyone get hold of our password of any online account, that means disaster (and losses).

Keep our personal data private

Internet can be our buddy or our enemy. Keeping our private information should be the first thing in mind when we are online. Sensitive information such as our full name, phone number, our address should not fall into wrong hands. Our personal information can be used against us-the danger of being impersonated, being scammed, or sold to other parties so they can sell specific products to you (they know your sickness, your hobby, etc). Sometimes you'll wonder how did they know everything about you?

Secure our earned money

In terms of security, our bank do have the safest and reliable technology that prevents unauthorized individuals from accessing our accounts. But for internet banking, you'll need a medium to sign in your online bank account - usually using your email, and your mobile number. That is 'their' chance to get your money. They crack your password's email, and then they can access your account. I wonder what they'll do with our money?? :-(

Prevents (slows down) others from stealing our hard work

The most prized lesson of all, as an internet marketer, is knowing that someone use your new idea and sell it online (ebook, audio recording, text transcripts, etc). As for some of us who do a lot of JV's with other IMers, our most common way to contact and discuss our material together is through our messenger and email. If they know our password, they can get access of our project's draft, our attachment, our discussions, everything and this is very unfortunate for us. Online competition can get so fierce that someone might do whatever they can to get our project in their hands.


Here I presents you news, articles and blogs which is good for an eye-opener: Why you should love your password.

• [http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2006/12/72300] = [http://www.schneier.com/essay-144.html] = [http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/myspace-password-exploit-crunching-numbers-and-letters-983] - actually it is about the same thing, Myspace user is sooooo clever~~ ;-)
  
• [http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/10000-passwords/] = [http://www.acunetix.com/blog/websecuritynews/statistics-from-10000-leaked-hotmail-passwords/] = [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8292928.stm] - another great password story (Hotmail)~~
  
• [http://www1.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/32-09182008-1592875.html] - poor Palin.. Should be our greatest lessons of all :-(
• [http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/another-security-tip-for-twitter-dont-use-password-as-your-password/] - I think that they want to play a psychological game here. The best hiding place is by showing it to everyone~~ (Note their alert of 'too obvious' in the first screen shots) X-D
• [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/16/rockyou_password_snafu/] password get rockin'
  
• [http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/12/twitter-gets-hijacked-nows-the-time-to-change-your-passwords/] = [http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/17/twitter-reportedly-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army/] blue tweet bird and password get captured~~
  
• [http://modernl.com/article/top-10-most-common-passwords] password hall of fame~
  
• [http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip112.htm] detailed information about password usage. (this stuff is too techie)
• [http://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/passwords/secret.aspx] - how to keep secret of your password

After reading this post, we should have that big red alert mark on our head that choosing a password is not a task to be taken lightly. And in our online business, having a good and strong password is the best prevention rather than recovering our loss in the future.

IM-AIOExplained: "Better safe than sorry~~" ;-)

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