We seem to have a very strange relationship with personal cyber security.
For instance many people feel that cookies are the work of the devil and being profiled to receive customised sales promotions is pretty much a breach of “Human Rights”. Ironically the EU leapt to the rescue and brought about some hard hitting laws to protect the vulnerable consumer from gut wrenching privacy attacks emanating from cookies.
Passwords on the other hand, many of the same people see little value in. And often as a menace which slows them down in life. All that “remembering stuff” is quite the nightmare! They come up with clever little ways to simplify life; like making them all the same and guessable by a three month old Labrador.
The more “sophisticated” ones, that take their privacy and cyber security *really* seriously, might pay to subscribe to a “secure password vault”. A curious act, which basically entails paying someone that you don’t really know anything about to store ALL your online passwords within an infrastructure you know even less about, in a Country that… well you see the problem right?
If I were a hacker (which I am not), I might think that the ultimate hack would be to steal all the data from a password vault. After all I know who they are. I know what they have got. And money aside, I could dine out on the kudos for ever.
Given that many hackers seem to be about age twelve and a half… dining out for ever is a VERY long time.