I guess the editor at MCP Magazine who fired me for talking about passphrases and ways to secure your passwords is looking rather foolish at this point. Years and years ago, I wrote an article on securing passwords – only to be told that I was out of touch with reality when I suggested that everyone needed to use more secure passwords. With the latest attack on the iCloud due to weak and pathetic passwords, you’d think that the attack’s victims would have appreciated learning the password strategies I was advocating 10 years ago! Apple now is saying that it is not their fault that the nude pictures of so many celebrities were obtained from their cloud storage . Does that mean that the weak questions for iCloud password recovery aren’t their responsibility either? I truly hope that this latest attack on the iCloud opens the eyes of everyone who uses social media, social networking, centralized cloud storage, and other online resources
