Seriously. The number one way to get owned is to use the same username and password, email and password, etc., on sites like here, and your mining pool, or email and facebook. It negates the purpose of having a username and password if they are all the same. We can't trust that the websites, and their databases and the traffic going between them are secure, so why not add a little fun to would be hackers trying to get your bitcoins by using a bunch of different passwords. We are often locked into using the same username often times because it is our email address, but the password we can control.
You can use a computer NOT connected to the internet to run a program like KeePass to store all your different usernames and passwords, there are a lot of free password management programs. Smart Phones have them too and if you don't install untrusted applications on your phone you can be "fairly" sure your smartphone is secure, though that's not guaranteed by any means either.
DO encrypt your bitcoin wallet and back it up. Use a silly passphrase, not a password to secure it.
That's all, god damn I'm tired of saying this. Key loggers fucking suck.
Topic: Do not use same username and pw ANYWHERE - page 2. (Read 1743 times)
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