TAG | Passwords
You wouldn’t let your bank give your PIN to a stranger, but some sites are taking a similarly cavalier attitude to security, warns Paul Annett of Clearleft
Before reading this feature, please pause and take a few minutes to send me your email address and password. I’m doing some research to see how many of my readers are friends-of-friends. I’ll only log in to your account to look at the address book. Honest.
No? You’d be surprised how many people happily do this via websites each and every day.