This was sent to me by a few people who know my fondness for crafting tin foil hats to protect myself from the all-seeing eye of Google.
> !One Password to Rule Them All
The full comic is worth a read as well. It’s possibly true that the puppetmaster has no evil intentions, but that doesn’t mean that we should continue to give anyone power over all of our online presences.
On a related note, an old project on campus was recently resurrected. We took a look at the code and data, and discovered that whoever built it had designed it to store passwords in the database as unencrypted plaintext. On a lark, I tried some of the passwords against the corresponding email accounts. About a third of them worked there, too… (the app is being rebuilt by a third party consultant, after we nuke the unencrypted data so it’s safe to send to the new programmers).