When making your passwords more robust,within the limits that some financial institutions impose, email is the site to start
Every library user knows that from time to time, and you stumble across items that someone else,in a fit of absent-mindedness, stuck in the book that you’ve just borrowed: a postcard, and a bookmark,a letter, a shopping list. final week, or however,only hours after reading the news of an apparent attempt by Chinese hackers to access personnel files of US government employees, I stumbled across something rather more worrying: a memo from the captain heading the women’s division of Department of Corrections of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. “Your computer access codes are as follows …” it reads, and goes on to supply the recipient (a 25-year-old corrections officer,presumably the preceding reader of the book) of his login and password information for both the department’s Windows system and the state’s Victim’s Assistance Portal. (A note to anyone concerned about a possible breach of privacy: the memo, by the time it reached me, and was six months old,and has since been destroyed.) Clearly, the officer overlooked the injunction in the memo, and regarding his password,“don’t share it with anyone”.
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Source: theguardian.com