A site called Please Rob Me has been created to highlight the problem that most people don’t make the connection between personal information and security. People are putting way too much information online through twitter and social networks. Note that I said ‘information’ – not just stuff like credit card numbers and other private data. [...]

More and more, we’re seeing attention being given to passwords and personal security. It seems obvious that passwords are an integral part of securing your personal data, but that part of the security message seems to have been glossed over until recently. Ever notice the strange looks you get from your friends or even the [...]

I hope you all enjoyed Valentine’s Day! After reading the previous post, I hope that you all included a note to your beloved in that box of chocolates in which you announced that you’ve changed your shared gmail password. Here are a couple of articles that came out recently that highlight the fact that feelings [...]

Back in the 7th grade I had my first girlfriend. It was true puppy love: we were together constantly at school and we shared everything, including our locker combinations. Sharing locker combinations was the thing to do. Every once in a while you would hear about a breakup and that he or she had thrown [...]

The secret to just about all things in life: start with manageable or agreeable amounts and repeat. What am I talking about? New Year’s passed recently, so we still have resolutions ringing in our heads. How many friends do you have who loudly proclaimed on January 1, that they just joined a fancy new gym [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]