decoration decoration
Stories

GROKLAW
When you want to know more...
decoration
For layout only
Home
Archives
Site Map
Search
About Groklaw
Awards
Legal Research
Timelines
ApplevSamsung
ApplevSamsung p.2
ArchiveExplorer
Autozone
Bilski
Cases
Cast: Lawyers
Comes v. MS
Contracts/Documents
Courts
DRM
Gordon v MS
GPL
Grokdoc
HTML How To
IPI v RH
IV v. Google
Legal Docs
Lodsys
MS Litigations
MSvB&N
News Picks
Novell v. MS
Novell-MS Deal
ODF/OOXML
OOXML Appeals
OraclevGoogle
Patents
ProjectMonterey
Psystar
Quote Database
Red Hat v SCO
Salus Book
SCEA v Hotz
SCO Appeals
SCO Bankruptcy
SCO Financials
SCO Overview
SCO v IBM
SCO v Novell
SCO:Soup2Nuts
SCOsource
Sean Daly
Software Patents
Switch to Linux
Transcripts
Unix Books

Gear

Groklaw Gear

Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog.


You won't find me on Facebook


Donate

Donate Paypal


No Legal Advice

The information on Groklaw is not intended to constitute legal advice. While Mark is a lawyer and he has asked other lawyers and law students to contribute articles, all of these articles are offered to help educate, not to provide specific legal advice. They are not your lawyers.

Here's Groklaw's comments policy.


What's New

STORIES
No new stories

COMMENTS last 48 hrs
No new comments


Sponsors

Hosting:
hosted by ibiblio

On servers donated to ibiblio by AMD.

Webmaster
Dumbstruck? | 219 comments | Create New Account
Comments belong to whoever posts them. Please notify us of inappropriate comments.
Dumbstruck?
Authored by: dlrapp on Tuesday, December 04 2012 @ 05:42 PM EST
No, I am not going to borrow your 5 letter username. And, feel
free to berate me for being "Dumbstruck." I did read and
comprehend that the registration is merely for voting. Here is
the point I was trying to make and seemed to have failed. Many
security researchers have discovered and reported many times
over the years that a very high percentage of folks use the same
username/password combinations for logging into computers
and/or websites. I am one such person. I do use a few
different passwords and my PayPal and bank accounts as well as
some others have unique (and much longer) passwords. When
I went to the ABA site to vote and after being redirected to the
registration page I had filled in the blanks - username, password
and email with the same info as I have for my Groklaw account
before realizing that the page was not https. At that point I
bailed and sent a (polite) message to the folks at the ABA
website advising them of my observation. Yesterday, I received
an email from them thanking me for the observation and stating
that the immediately turned the information over to their IT
folks to remedy. Feel free to accuse me of being "easily
Dumbstruck" and you might even be correct. My "Dumbstruck"
state resulted from the realization that, even though lawyers are
not generally expected to be tech or computer security savvy,
the ABA web site IT folks seem to lack tech and/or computer
security concern. And, again, NO I don't copy other folks user
names and, NO I don't make up fake email addresses. I am a
grey-beard and have been designing, building, programming and
using computers for 50+ years (my first foray into computers
was a Geniac I built in 1958.) I tend to be a bit paranoid having
been the victim of stolen username /password information
more than a decade ago.

---
David

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."

-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical R

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Groklaw © Copyright 2003-2013 Pamela Jones.
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Comments are owned by the individual posters.

PJ's articles are licensed under a Creative Commons License. ( Details )