{"id":1796,"date":"2008-08-26T10:15:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T10:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2025-06-07T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T16:29:35","slug":"your-social-networking-profiles-shouldnt-include-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/your-social-networking-profiles-shouldnt-include-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Your social networking profiles shouldn&#8217;t include passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/unlockpuzzlepiece1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1797\" style=\"float: left\" title=\"unlockpuzzlepiece1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/unlockpuzzlepiece1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m going to comb through my profiles at the various social networking sites where I participate to see if any of them contain the passwords I use for my bank accounts, websites\u00a0and anything else online.<\/p>\n<p>The article &#8220;Forgot Your Password?&#8221; May be Weakest Link\u00a0by Bob Thompson presents a compelling case for just how easy it can be for rip-off artists to find your passwords in social networking profiles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">As an experiment, Herbert Thompson, chief security strategist of People Security, recently asked a few friends for permission to &#8220;hack&#8221; into their bank accounts.\u00a0 Using only information gathered from Web sites, Thompson found his way in within minutes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The best passwords are long passwords that use a combination of numerals and upper- and lower-case letters. I keep track of all my passwords using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/keepass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KeePass,<\/a>\u00a0a free password-protected software program that I love.\u00a0A similar program, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roboform.com\/php\/land.php?affid=joans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roboform,<\/a> which isn&#8217;t free, not only keeps track of passwords but automatically fills in online forms with just one click.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to comb through my profiles at the various social networking sites where I participate to see if any of them contain the passwords I use for my bank accounts, websites\u00a0and anything else online. The article &#8220;Forgot Your Password?&#8221; May be Weakest Link\u00a0by Bob Thompson presents a compelling case for just how easy it\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/your-social-networking-profiles-shouldnt-include-passwords\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":0,"wds_primary_category":638,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[626,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-1796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-media","7":"tag-how-to-write-a-bio","8":"tag-social-media-productivity","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41492,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/41492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}