What moved me to write this blog were the interesting news I encountered the other night.
The first was entitled Most common passwords revealed
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/6710257/most-common-passwords-found.
The other one was, Quake survival? There's an app for that
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/6708550/quake-survival-theres-an-app-for-that/.
Based on the first news, the ten most commonly used passwords were:
1. 123456
2. 12345
3. 123456789
4. Password
5. iloveyou
6. princess
7. rockyou*
8. 1234567
9. 12345678
10. abc123
What are your passwords? Maybe it’s time to do some changes as scammers and hackers are on the run. These people are the ones who endanger the welfare of members of the cyberworld community. After being a victim of a phishing scam myself, I know full well what it is like. They invade your privacy, steal personal information, trace your steps in the web and/or unlock your passwords especially in your internet banking and credit card transactions.
Scary and dangerous internet may be, it also provides enormous comforts. All sorts of transactions and shopping may be done in just one click on the mouse or keyboards. Getting the best bargains worldwide is common now as sending someone cheers and thanks is easy. If internet were not invented, the chance of meeting old classmates and friends back in the primary and secondary levels would remain little if not nil. Without the internet, the belief that the “the world is small” would not become “so, so, so small.” Real time chats and video conferencing with someone 6,000 miles across the globe would only happen in dreams.
Technology at its best is exemplified well in the second news. The Haiti victim’s access to internet through his I-phone helped him save his own life. He was trapped under the rubbles of the hotel he stayed in for three days, but he made it out alive. Thanks to I-Phone.
Again, technology may be good or bad, or it is both good and bad. It is up to us to decide how we may use it to promote the best interests of the human race.
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Hey that was really interesting about passwords. I guess we tend to rely on passwords that we can remember easily therefore we fall prey to hackers. Well, I must admit I did use some of the passwords that is in the list and of course I have been conscientiously changing them to better passwords nowadays :)
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