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Authored by: dlrapp on Tuesday, December 04 2012 @ 05:42 PM EST |
No, I am not going to borrow your 5 letter username. And, feel
free to berate me for being "Dumbstruck." I did read and
comprehend that the registration is merely for voting. Here is
the point I was trying to make and seemed to have failed. Many
security researchers have discovered and reported many times
over the years that a very high percentage of folks use the same
username/password combinations for logging into computers
and/or websites. I am one such person. I do use a few
different passwords and my PayPal and bank accounts as well as
some others have unique (and much longer) passwords. When
I went to the ABA site to vote and after being redirected to the
registration page I had filled in the blanks - username, password
and email with the same info as I have for my Groklaw account
before realizing that the page was not https. At that point I
bailed and sent a (polite) message to the folks at the ABA
website advising them of my observation. Yesterday, I received
an email from them thanking me for the observation and stating
that the immediately turned the information over to their IT
folks to remedy. Feel free to accuse me of being "easily
Dumbstruck" and you might even be correct. My "Dumbstruck"
state resulted from the realization that, even though lawyers are
not generally expected to be tech or computer security savvy,
the ABA web site IT folks seem to lack tech and/or computer
security concern. And, again, NO I don't copy other folks user
names and, NO I don't make up fake email addresses. I am a
grey-beard and have been designing, building, programming and
using computers for 50+ years (my first foray into computers
was a Geniac I built in 1958.) I tend to be a bit paranoid having
been the victim of stolen username /password information
more than a decade ago.
---
David
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical R[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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