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CNBC Just Collected Your Password and Shared It With Marketers (pcworld.com)
SpacemanukBEJY.53u writes: An article published by CNBC on Tuesday offered tips on how to create a secure password, complete with a form that tested submitted passwords. While well-intended, security experts said it exposed passwords to third-party advertisers. Also, the form created to test a password didn't use SSL/TLS, which meant someone on the same network could have sniffed it. Even worse, the tool claimed to not store the passwords, but an acute observer found they were actually being inputted into a Google Docs spreadsheet. CNBC quickly withdrew the article.
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It's good that Slashdot uses an automatic password filter that converts posted passwords into stars.
For example, my password is ******** but it doesn't show up in the post. Yeah, I know eight characters really isn't long enough but the first character is an uppercase letter and has a number at the end.
Why don't you all give it a try.