Basically everyone reuses their passwords
Every once in a while I have to log into a website I haven't been to in, say, a year. I type in my username and password, hit enter, and the internet yells at me.*
Wrong password. OK, I say, and type a**ther variation of the password.*
I tell myself, "This time I'll use a an exclamation point instead of an 'I,'" sure that this could be the only other option.*
Wrong again, so I go back to typing my original guess, thinking maybe I'd misspelled it the first time, but **, I'm wrong, and **w my fingers are flying across the keyboard until the internet has yelled at me so many times that I have to create a new password and answer a bunch of questions to prove I'm **t some imposter ****** trying to steal my own LinkedIn info.* Read more...