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Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online Security, Survey Finds (huffingtonpost.com)
A recent survey of over 2,000 adults conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of Dashlane, a "leader in online identity and password management," found that nearly 40 percent of Americans would give up sex for an entire year if it meant they'd never have to worry about being hacked. Huffington Post reports: 40 percent of people also said they'd give up their favorite food for one month in the name of peace of mind online. If all of this sounds drastic, the truth is that it probably is. The single biggest thing people can do to help keep their online identity safe is probably the easiest -- a solid password. 10 years ago, anti-virus was the primary method of online security. But since the Internet has left the desktop and is on laptops, tablets, and cell phones, and since so many people now use the cloud for backing up their sensitive data, following proper password protocol is critical. Of course, having a solid password doesn't do a lot of good if you're giving it out to people. And nearly 50% of people have shared a password to an e-mail account or to an account like Netflix with a friend or had a friend share theirs (which is a surprisingly high number when you consider that 4 out of 10 people said that sharing an online social media password was more intimate than sex). A look at the password habits of Americans showed that about 30% have used a pet's name, almost 25% have used a family member's name, 21% a birthday, and 10% each have used an anniversary, a sports team, an address, or a phone number. So if you just know a few basic, personal details about someone, you've got a decent chance at cracking their password. The study also revealed some interesting data in that younger Americans (those age 18 to 34) who grew up online are far more trusting with passwords than older generations, and married people are less likely to part with passwords than single people.
All you have to do is :
In other news, 40% of Americans have bad sex lives.
I'm guessing the female participation in this study was also at 40%.
Really? That's it? Well, nothing to see here, everyone just move along...
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"The single biggest thing people can do to help keep their online identity safe is probably the easiest -- a solid password."
Fucking cannot be absolutely more wrong on this one. Firstly, you "shouldn't" re-use passwords. So it isn't a "solid password", but instead a "solid password per web site". But what *IS* a solid password? That's right. Complex as fuck shit to remember. Upper, lower, number, specials, with a minimum and maximum that isn't even remotely consistent from web site to web site.
The correct answer for the "probably easiest" way to protect online identity? Enable two-factor authentication on any site that supports it. Even just this alone is a HUGE improvement. Plus, sites like Facebook have login attempt notifications. So if someone even attempts to access your account, you are instantly notified on ALL devices at once of when/where the login attempt occurred and actively deny them your credentials.
After 20 years working in internet security, the headline struck me as bullshit. Just yesterday when I told a guy that making his DVR accessible via the internet would mean hackers would likely get into it, his response was "I don't care". That's about typical. So why would this survey come up with that result? The bottom section of the article begins with:
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Dashlane makes identity and checkouts simple with its password manager and secure digital wallet app. Dashlane allows its users to securely manage passwords
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And according to a survey conducted by McDonald's, their burgers are wonderful.
And what is this supposed to actually mean? It's just a clickbait study that doesn't really tell us a damned thing that's actually useful.
I bet 40% of the people who read this would be willing to punch the author of the study in the face for a chocolate bar, too.
Deserve neither.
Survey finds that 60% of people will say anything when answering a survey. Oh and Hillary Clinton will win. By a landslide.
This study means absolutely nothing other than showing us that the people who visit Dashlane's site and use their products most likely either don't care or get any sex and have no problem giving it up for better online security. That's like polling Slashdot about which Mp3 player is better (Zune or iPod).
I bet if they sampled 2000 people who read the Huffpost or some other more mixed MSM site will get a vastly different answer than what this bunk poll found.
What's the point in polling a population who believe in angels, has but the slightest knowledge of history and geography and is almost illiterate in science?
40% of Americans probably couldn't understand what "nearly 40% of Americans" even means.
We could as well discuss the percentage of toddlers who think their mum should be Queen of America.
doesn't matter how solid your password it is if it can be reset through some mechanism you don't know about - like customer service.
or if the attacker gets a copy of your browser cache(and cookies) and gets in through that, to reset said password.
two factor yes, but the PASSWORD IS THE FUCKING EASIEST THING and well, as long as it is a password that can't be guessed in 10 tries, it doesn't really help at all.
however, since such articles would be "too hard" to understand if they talked about the actual risks, like just having windows 10 on defaults, people wouldn't be reading them.
that's why people would give up sex for a year to not have to worry about the stuff because big companies, like microsoft, apple and google are doing such a piss shit poor job on protecting their users that it's impossible to know if an android phone is hacked for example just from looking at all the traffic that's going in and out BECAUSE the providers of the operating systems don't want it to be easy to firewall and curate your traffic! MS DOESN'T WANT IT! APPLE DOESN'T WANT IT AND GOOGLE doesn't want it.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
"Kissing is more intimate than sex" - You are doing it wrong
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...all of them were ex-subscribers of Ashley Madison dating service, who got neither sex nor privacy!
That's because they've been married for a while, and feel like they've given up on sex already.
------- Mark
I just installed APKs HOSTS file generator. Now I can shag all I want and be secure!
On the flip side, if Americans had better sex, they wouldn't be on the internet watching porn. Catch-22!
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Give up sex for better online security... so people will stop visiting porn websites?
Take Nobody's Word For It.
40% of Americans are morons!
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I believe even more believe in creationism. Therefore not a surprise, christians don't fuck.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
I guess it's those people, where Christmas happens more often than sex.
I for one, would give up the internet for more sex.
If you've seen "Pretty Woman" this actually makes sense!
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But did the survey ask what proportion of the population would give up sex to stop being bothered by pollsters?
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
My feed showed 'Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online ...'.
... are so accurate and stuff.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I guess I need to come up with a new sighful response to silly articles as "Fucking Americans" no longer seems to fit.
Let's see. In the 12 years I've been married, I could have provided better online security to ..... well. An entire village.
You fjnorkers owe me. Big time.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Ben Franklin said it best,
And let me tell you, Franklin was a man who knew good poontang.
You are welcome on my lawn.
If you give up money- by taxing the rich and creating socialism you might get security. Here is why: you have to take out the profit motive from hacking by giving people good lives for free even if they are broke and disadvantaged. This then will reduce the amount of scams, hacking, spam and other bullshit. Currently ti get by in life many are forced to steal, become drug dealers, prostitutes, sex workers, spammers, hackers, etc.
I would wager the only reason the spam box exists is poverty and need to profit off the internet and capitalism anyway you can.
I would say the only reason you have hackers taking over machines and demanding randsom is because money is otherwise hard to come by.
People are food insecure, housing insecure, education depleted, etc.
But trust me there's plenty of money to pay for it all you just have to tax the 1% of the world by like 90% and suddenly a free society for all can be built that everyone can rely on by default with free housing, basic income, workers rights and vebefits, children/animal and human rights, etc.
The more you kill the profit motive the more secure and healthy society becomes as you will have less reliance of fraud, abuse and exploitation to survive. Its pretty much a rule.
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The other 60% would give up online security for better sex.
Now there's someone who's never been laid!
> Enable two-factor authentication on any site that supports it. Even just this alone is a HUGE improvement. Plus, sites like Facebook have login attempt notifications.
Those are good things. 2FA is a bit of a hassle, so not worth it to log in to Slashdot, but certainly makes sense for a bank.
> Complex as fuck shit to remember. Upper, lower, number, specials
For 15 years, I developed password-based security full time. I had an alias or two on the cracker boards. I analyzed thousands and thousands of attacks. The "complexity" you want isn't the type of complexity that makes things hard to remember. For example, this:
jJg6%#5@fB
Is weaker than this:
I can readily remember this simple passphrase.
I would do it if I were young.
As written, it would mean that in exchange for a year of no sex, I would get decades of not having to worry about not only my own account, but also the integrity of all the places that I have accounts. I have several bank, credit union, and brokerage accounts, and they would all have to be made secure to protect my accounts. There is also the IRS, and the various hospitals who hold my medical records.
"online security" has to include both endpoints to be safe. It's neither your MS windows nor your Linux boxes at home that You should to worry about.
The internet is for porn, don't ever forget that.
To a bad guy, your DVR isn't a DVR, it's a presence in your private network. Your router typically blocks almost all traffic from the internet, but ALLOWS all traffic from within your network. Once they are are in any device on the internal network, they are allowed to reach any other device on your internal network. You may have noticed also that Windows default security settings are different for the local network vs the internet.
Perhaps most importantly, from your DVR they can access 192.168.1.1, the admin interface of your router! From there they can grant themselves remote access to every other device, and even MITM *all* of your traffic. That's the big one.
Also, you may have noticed several stories on Slashdot lately about large-scale attacks coming from compromised cameras, DVRs, etc. Your DVR will become part of the botnet attacking others, which may well result in your IP being blocked, so you can no longer access many sites on the internet.
So says the 40% that are not getting any as it is...
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
I see your point. I will say that I don't allow remote admin connection to my router. The only way to log into the admin account there is via wired ethernet cable connection. I've got a decent password but really I've never worried about it because I don't store anything I'm worried about on a computer connected to a network. I never really worried about becoming a part of a botnet though I have always had the router sitting on my desk where I can watch network traffic indicators. Ages ago I did get backdoored while on IRC hanging out in #elitecafe on galaxynet. I had an Amiga 3000 then and noticed my US Robotics 54K modem lights going hard red and the led on my HD started flashing fast. I reached over and turned the modem off, back on and dialed back in. When I got back in the channel I asked who was screwing with my computer. I got a private message from a guy there, seems the IRC client I used had a backdoor. IRC was like the wild west back in those days. I learned quick not to count on total security from anything connected to a network.
> The only way to log into the admin account there is via wired ethernet cable connection.
Wireless can't reach the admin interface? Cool.
> my US Robotics 54K modem lights going hard red and the led on my HD started flashing fast. I reached over and turned the modem off
I wish more of my clients would disconnect the network when they notice a problem. That's exactly the right move. Shutting down destroys evidence, while rebooting can give give attacker a more covert channel.
I answer the question, I'm marked as a troll.
Why do you love the status quo? The status quo is slavery. Why do you love slavery?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
-there are studies that link intelligence with ideology.
-reading comprehension is simply another metric for intelligence, so....same answer.
-speaking of reading comprehension and intelligence: who wouldn't want "FREE HEALTHCARE" after multiple successful public trials (ie, successful implementation in basically every other advanced nation, as well as our own medicare system) have shown it to be both cheaper and more effective?
but then evidence based reasoning again goes back to intelligence again.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
I am sure the 2000 on the survey were all women.
People who have never had real passion in their sex lives.
Sorry, but I have to disagree. Sex is very important to this woman and I have no idea what women that you are referring to...
"Kissing is more intimate than sex" - You are doing it wrong
Or, you are kissing wrong. The deepest intimacy I have ever felt was through a kiss. Sex... well, it can be exceedingly intimate too, even more intimate than a kiss, but the psychology of the situation usually prevents that.
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