Here is another reason why you don’t want to use the same password for everything…

There was a document out on scribd.com, a document sharing site, that listed 700 (or 8000, depending on how you read the article) usernames and passwords for Comcast Internet and email accounts. According to the NY Times Technology section, there were real usernames and real passwords just sitting out there.

Imagine the scenario: Your username and password for your ISP (Charter, AT&T, what have you), gets exposed like those on this list. Someone finds it, and just for the heck of it, sees if it works at bankofamerica.com, and whaddya know…you have an account there. And you use that same username and password. Want to keep things simeple, after all. Now that could get ugly, couldn’t it?

So be careful! Use a password program such as KeePass - a nice little freebie - and don’t use the same password everywhere. It just ain’t a good practice.

See the NY Times article here.