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jonno99 · 2009-05-06 00:53:58

You should not trust anyone with your password.

param | karma 595 | avg karma 3.2 · | 2009-05-06 08:09:47+00:00

I think you mean "You should not trust _anyone_ with your password".

jpetersonmn | karma 161 | avg karma 0.76 · | 2014-11-12 14:50:13+00:00

Don't trust a 3rd party with my passwords.

dwighttk | karma 4409 | avg karma 1.78 · | 2018-03-26 14:03:09+00:00

don't trust anyone: even the people with whom you are attempting to verify your identity using a password.

nilved | karma 2464 | avg karma 2.25 · | 2017-01-06 14:46:16+00:00

Trusting someone else with your passwords is playing with fire.

tjpnz | karma 6060 | avg karma 2.95 · | 2023-07-26 23:30:03

Don't give those cunts your passwords.

AtNightWeCode | karma 391 | avg karma 0.41 · | 2022-09-17 09:41:50

Passwords are not "real" secrets. Don't put real secrets into password managers.

teddyh | karma 23902 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2019-03-08 15:43:47

And this is why you should never, ever, choose your own password. You just aren’t as random as you think you are.

ubermonkey | karma 5695 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2019-04-03 13:14:08+00:00

It remains true that no one should ever ask for your password.

Simply asking for my password is enough to make me distrust you forever.

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all_blue_chucks | karma 1092 | avg karma 2.58 · | 2019-12-14 00:29:54+00:00

You should never, ever, ever type a password on a public computer.

nucleardog | karma 2725 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2018-06-28 13:58:27

tl;dr - Don't give your password out to people that ask for it, otherwise people can do things with your account that you don't want them to do.

There is no novel technical vulnerability... Just another case of people being convinced to give up their passwords over the phone.

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Nycto | karma 709 | avg karma 6.82 · | 2009-07-10 12:01:50

While I agree with the idea that you should never share your password, you're blaming the victim. Having read a few accounts of their exploits now, this company is manipulating these people.

tejasmanohar | karma 805 | avg karma 2.92 · | 2018-04-07 11:23:44+00:00

People reuse passwords. The mere possibility of someone being able to see it is bad.

elygre | karma 1385 | avg karma 3.45 · | 2020-07-15 08:52:29+00:00

Password sharing is not a good idea, but sometimes or even often unavoidable.

IgorPartola | karma 19474 | avg karma 3.23 · | 2010-02-04 04:24:05+00:00

Agreed. It's also a conceptually wrong thing to do. The password does not belong there.

Dylan16807 | karma 31639 | avg karma 1.39 · | 2015-06-15 19:58:02

Assuming you're more clever than whoever is cracking the password is a bad plan.

zouhair | karma 1696 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2016-07-27 10:13:02+00:00

People trusting a third party for their passwords boggles my mind.

greendestiny_re | karma 197 | avg karma 1.25 · | 2020-04-29 19:34:07+00:00

Please don't ever post your passwords, even in jest. The web is filled with crawlers that scrape passwords and add them to vast password dictionaries to be used in cracking.

namkt | karma 52 | avg karma 1.86 · | 2022-12-01 03:36:06

This was the immediate and exact same thought I had the moment I read the first sentence of the post. Then I stopped reading. Clearly this was not an engineering decision, and passwords should be trusted to no one but competent engineers and cryptographers.

mbid | karma 551 | avg karma 5.01 · | 2018-02-24 14:41:13+00:00

Yes, I know. It's certainly better to leak only the first eigth of your password than all of it, but it's still not something you should do.