{"id":13347,"date":"2018-09-13T02:30:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/09\/13\/news-7114\/"},"modified":"2018-09-13T02:30:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T10:30:12","slug":"news-7114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/09\/13\/news-7114\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Just one more thing to worry about"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

This pilot fish and his wife are planning a long-overdue vacation to an all-inclusive resort — one of those places where you don’t have to worry about things like meals or tipping.<\/p>\n

“I log onto the resort’s website in order to make some reservations ahead of our arrival,” fish says, “and am presented with the standard registration page.”<\/p>\n

He enters his information on the page, which also asks “for security reasons” that he set up a password.<\/p>\n

It’s not until after he has clicked “OK” that fish looks at the icon in his web browser and realizes the page isn’t encrypted. He does a quick browse of the source code for the page, and finds that there’s no SSL anywhere securing the data he’s just typed in.<\/p>\n

A quick call to the resort’s customer service department is less than fruitful — no surprise there. And no one will transfer him to the IT department, either.<\/p>\n

“The icing on the cake?” says fish. “I get an e-mail from them confirming my registration — and it contains my password in all its glory.<\/p>\n

“Lessons learned: Never use the same password across systems. And remember that my idea of security may not match my vendor’s ideas of ‘security.'”<\/p>\n

Sharky’s idea of security is having plenty of true tales of IT life.<\/strong> Send yours to me at sharky@computerworld.com<\/a>. You can also comment on today’s tale at Sharky’s Google+ community<\/strong><\/a>, and read thousands of great old tales in the Sharkives<\/strong><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This pilot fish and his wife are planning a long-overdue vacation to an all-inclusive resort — one of those places where you don’t have to worry about things like meals or tipping.<\/p>\n

“I log onto the resort’s website in order to make some reservations ahead of our arrival,” fish says, “and am presented with the standard registration page.”<\/p>\n

He enters his information on the page, which also asks “for security reasons” that he set up a password.<\/p>\n

It’s not until after he has clicked “OK” that fish looks at the icon in his web browser and realizes the page isn’t encrypted. He does a quick browse of the source code for the page, and finds that there’s no SSL anywhere securing the data he’s just typed in.<\/p>\n

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