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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 27287" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Potential security vulnerability if you use 1and1 internet hostingYes that seems a little amateurish for 1&amp;1, I hope you told them too.&nbsp; IIRC they are using some german registrar for domains and are now whining about costs (perhaps because the dollar is losing so much relative value).&nbsp; Funny coincidence, 1&amp;1 called me yesterday or the day before tying to sell me some email service...&nbsp; nah.&nbsp; Note: to hackers, my servers are elsewhere too... but I still have an old acct with 1&amp;1 and a few domains. [rant] Passwords... Surely it isn&#039;t just me, how are we expected to possibly remember a bazillion different passwords. To make matters worse, now some high value websites, are forcing us to change these passwords every few months. The number of passwords must drive typical users to write down passwords or use some equivalent storage method, that exposes entire collections of passwords to risk. We need facial recognition, voice , fingerprint, eyeball, whatever...&nbsp; if they can put movie cameras inside every telephone, how expensive is personal recognition technology? While we will always be at risk, and no system is perfect.&nbsp; &nbsp; [/rant]&nbsp;&nbsp; JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 27287, member: 126"] Re: Potential security vulnerability if you use 1and1 internet hosting Yes that seems a little amateurish for 1&1, I hope you told them too. IIRC they are using some german registrar for domains and are now whining about costs (perhaps because the dollar is losing so much relative value). Funny coincidence, 1&1 called me yesterday or the day before tying to sell me some email service... nah. Note: to hackers, my servers are elsewhere too... but I still have an old acct with 1&1 and a few domains. [rant] Passwords... Surely it isn't just me, how are we expected to possibly remember a bazillion different passwords. To make matters worse, now some high value websites, are forcing us to change these passwords every few months. The number of passwords must drive typical users to write down passwords or use some equivalent storage method, that exposes entire collections of passwords to risk. We need facial recognition, voice , fingerprint, eyeball, whatever... if they can put movie cameras inside every telephone, how expensive is personal recognition technology? While we will always be at risk, and no system is perfect. [/rant] JR [/QUOTE]

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