Staying secure

Your weakest link to a blog / website / email / ftp or to anywhere online is your choice of password.

If you were given one by a system then it is probably okay but you should still change it.

If you chose it yourself it’s probably a very poor password.

All it takes is one person to guess your password and they can delete every post you have made. They could change / read emails. They could deface your site. They could ruin what you have taken time to build. And all because you used a password you thought was safe.

You could probably take a guess at what passwords a friend might use - pet name, football team, birthday, school, favourite band / track … and they can try and guess yours too.

Keepass - Open Source Password Safe

(read the Wikipedia entry for more information)

Download that program. USE IT.

Generate 16 random character passwords and use one per location. It’s pointless having a single good password if cracking that gives someone access to everything. So what if you lose a password? They can be got back or changed somehow. Deleted data cannot.

And if you think no-one will hack you, that’s fine. Just don’t say anything when it happens.

Your data. Your responsibility.