By Leo Notenboom
I’ve been fighting a problem with my email it seems for weeks now. [Further details removed.]
My username is [removed] and my password is ‘tires4you’. Can you help?
I’ve removed the details of what is basically a composite question, because this isn’t about the question.
It’s about what’s horribly, horribly wrong with the question.
And it’s something that I see so often that it’s time that I said something.
And no, it’s not that the password is horrifically unsecure (although it is).
You gave your account information to a total stranger
You don’t know me.
You don’t know the people that work for me.
I absolutely believe that I have the highest level of integrity and that I would only have people working for me who are just as honest.
The point is that you don’t know that.
For all that you know, I or someone on my staff could be a spammer, a scammer, or worse. We’re not, but how do you know?
And yet, you handed over your account information to total strangers you don’t know.
It gets worse.
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