Posted by Robert Scoble

Since last week we saw the publishing of confidential documents from inside Twitter (I doubt any of you missed that, but if you did, TechCrunch last week got passed documents from a hacker who figured out how to get into several accounts at Twitter).

This led me to start this discussion which is most excellent because it shows how to do password security right. I’ll be honest, I’m going through right now and changing all my passwords because I was practicing several of the bad practices that Twitter’s employees were. I bet many of you are doing the same stupid things too.

While I’m on this topic, last week the hard drive in my Mac died. I lost a few days of videos and emails because I wasn’t backing up as often as I should be. Naughty me. The drive just stopped right in the middle of me working. Apple replaced the drive but that didn’t help me get back the videos and emails. Today I’m setting up my new hard drives with JungleDisk. I don’t care what you use to back up, but I know lots of you aren’t. I bought a couple of 1.5TB drives from Seagate, too. Costs $159 at Best Buy and probably cheaper online. No excuses for not backing everything up now. You haven’t done it, have you? (I know most people don’t back up).

Anyway, just a friendly reminder to pay attention to these things before you get bitten.

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