![]() If something happened and I didn’t trust that middle company any more, I could simply change the company/service which vouched for me. It allowed me to trust a company of my choosing to vouch for me, whenever I came to log into sites which supported OpenID. I vouch for Jeff with Eric saying that he’s a cool dude, and vice-versa. Eric and Jeff don’t know each other, but they both know me. It’s essentially a system where two people don’t know or trust each other, but they both trust a third person, and that third person vouches for each of the first two. The approach that OpenID takes is known as Federated Identity. Enter 1PasswordĪround the same time as when I discovered 1Password, I also learned about something called OpenID. ![]() Sometimes I would stick a dollar sign or two somewhere in the middle to mix things up. Over time, I began appending special characters here, or prepending them there. This is a better approach than most people use, but it’s still a terrible practice. Nothing too wild, but after a while, I established some muscle memory around typing them and began to rely on them. They were usually a blend of 8 alphanumeric and/or symbol characters. My approach was this: Whenever a website would auto-generate a random password for me, instead of changing it to something I could remember, I simply memorized it. Or something else equally guessable by one of the many supercomputers that exist (whereby “supercomputer”, I mean pretty much any computer invented in the past 5–7 years). ![]() Some people do things as dumb as using the name of their significant other. Unfortunately, even with the best intentions, you inevitably end up re-using one or a few passwords across every single website you log into. ![]()
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