Monthly Archives: January 2010

Taking passwords seriously

A few recent articles have revealed (again) that most people don’t take their online security seriously. Maybe a better way of saying this is that most people don’t seem to connect the dots between their passwords (online logins) and how they help keep their personal data secure. At a time when everyone is talking about [...]

The going rate for a password

I ran across write up of an interesting survey in a online Swedish newspaper. It seems that a good number of Swedes are more than willing to  reveal passwords and access info to websites to an unknown person in exchange for chocolate bars while answering questions during a survey. (I suspect that this lax approach [...]

Bue Spring Manatee Festival

Because there is more to life than just passwords (yes, we admit it!) and facebook and ‘official’ letters from the FBI, we’ll occasionally point out events and activities and all sorts of other things that excite the Sticky Password team. The Sticky Password team has become very interested in helping Manatees in Florida. So much [...]

Personal Privacy and that ‘Interview’ with a Facebook Employee

Yesterday, The Rumpus published an interview with an undisclosed Facebook employee. In the article the employee highlights a bunch of practices within Facebook that suggest that member data isn’t as private as we might think it to be. I’ve put quotes around the word interview in the heading, because it really isn’t clear whether the [...]

The Ice Cream Man

It was a good weekend – except for the cold or flu or whatever it is that has me incapacitated since Saturday afternoon. (How am I supposed to enjoy play off football when I’m not feeling well!?) Earlier in the morning on Saturday, I ran into my friend the ice cream man at the crowded [...]

Your online identity – dead

I just found about the web 2.0 suicide machine. Wow! That’s what I call finding a need and filling it. Once you get past the gallows humor – and, even though it is really only one graphical page, it took me a good while to do so, because they’ve done a great job of playing [...]

New Year’s Resolutions

While visiting my parents during the week between Christmas and New Year’s, I cleaned up my dad’s computer a bit. I try to do this for him every couple of months. The last time I was able to do it was at the beginning of August, so things were a bit ‘messier’ than usual. My [...]