{"id":7386,"date":"2014-04-16T08:14:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7386"},"modified":"2014-04-16T08:14:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:14:32","slug":"passwords-are-important-here-is-a-guy-who-learned-the-hard-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/passwords-are-important-here-is-a-guy-who-learned-the-hard-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Passwords Are Important: Here Is a Guy Who Learned the Hard Way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This reader mocked Heartbleed, posted his passwords online. Guess what happened next.<\/h3>\n

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Here’s a lesson in online security: Passwords are important. They keep your information safe. Crucially, they also prevent other people from impersonating you. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, one of The Switch’s readers learned that the hard way. On a story explaining how the Heartbleed bug could slow down the Internet<\/a>, a commenter scoffed at the “Heartbleed thingamajig,” arguing that the Internet’s handwringing over security was mostly overwrought: <\/p>\n

I couldn’t give a flying fig about the Heartbleed thingamajig. Two years already the thing has been running loose … and not a word of someone crying over its damage. Say … does anyone really know its origin? Russian crackers? Seattle high-schoolers? the NSA? Yahoo’s marketing department? <\/p>\n

The reader went on to post the two passwords he uses on a regular basis across all of his main accounts, inviting hackers to <\/p>\n

read all the eMail I have. Sneak into my WaPo, NYT or CNN accounts and go crazy making comments in my name. Break-into my Facebook or Twitter profiles and change my hometown to Gas City Indiana, swap-out my avatar with a picture of your nads, make friends with people I don’t know. <\/p>\n

Several other readers tried to point out how dangerous this was\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read this entire Washington Post article here<\/strong><\/u><\/a>.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This reader mocked Heartbleed, posted his passwords online. Guess what happened next. (Paramount\/CBS Television) Here’s a lesson in online security: Passwords are important. They keep your information safe. Crucially, they also prevent other people from impersonating you. Unfortunately, one of The Switch’s readers learned that the hard way. On a story explaining how the Heartbleed bug could slow\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7387,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions\/7387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}