Why do we ned passwords for everything?
Monday, October 6, 2008 at 10:37AM Q. Why do we need passwords for everything - ATM machines, our own home computers, even voice mail on our own personal cell phones when we routinely get notification that some third party has hacked its way in to this institution or that and our personal information is at risk. In other words, what good are passwords when the security risk is outside of our realm of control? Very confused in CA
A. I think, Confused, it is because there are people who have a say in these types of things who are certain that remembering all these passwords improves our chances of staying mentally alert, that we might become at risk of becoming mentally stagnant if we didn't have to make up all these ridiculous combinations of our dog's name plus numbers added on that mean absolutely nothing but that are imperative on some but by no means all sites.
That it is a waste of time, frustrating and serves no purpose to insure the security of our information should certainly be no deterrent to the institutions