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Blue_Thunder posted...

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So you don't mind being held legally and financially responsible for if your account is used to exploit vulnerabilities that could affect other users? If your account is impersonated and used for social engineering attacks?

Not sure how my Hulu account can do that, though I can only account for stuff under my account

Yellow posted...

Obviously for your security. If your account gets hacked, it's bad business for them.

But its also bad for business if I stop business with them due to not being able to get into my account

Yellow posted...

To go into more depth, a hacker might only get 30 guesses in max before your account gets locked. If your password is one of the 30 most used passwords, you could get hacked.

Some of these companies maintain a policy that keeps your data encrypted on their end so that they (or an attacker in case of a breach) can't access it without you. A short password would not make that possible.

Wouldnt that be if it were the commonly used ones. Technically, my password isnt a commonly used one. It just didnt have the required characters

Sahuagin posted...

it sounds like you're picturing it at an individual (ie: your own) scale, not a global scale. imagine it as a slider in a strategy/sim game. at the bottom of the slider we couldn't even have this conversation since we'd both be locked out of our own accounts already, and having an account in the first place would not be possible. for the internet to function as it does requires a minimal level of security.

I'm not sure people know what the internet is really like. even with some security, you can setup a basic site and be instantly inundated with bot spam and hijack attempts. (actually it's kind of like the warp in WH40k. it's brimming with chaos, but as long as you shield yourself in the right ways you can still function; but leave a hole open, and something will find its way in there, sooner or later.)

But I am talking about individuals here. The internet as a whole doesnt have to not be as secure as possible. I just mean accounts that people set up. For example, my Hulu account. Before this, the password I chose was fine. It worked, kept people out who I didnt allow to use it, and let the people I gave the info to use it. It wasn't the most secure, but it worked That what I mean. And not everybody would feel the same. But not everyone would have to be as unsecure as others