There are certain things you just shouldn’t tell anyone.
Your passwords are chief among these.
Over the course of your life, you will probably have at least several passwords that remain attached to you forever. You may come up with them in just seconds. But their importance is impossible to measure, and it will grow the longer you keep them around.
Not unlike the pin number to your ATM card, you should always check over your shoulder when typing a password into your e-mail or online banking account. Just like the ATM code, it’s an unassumingly short thing to remember. But if just one person were to learn it, the possible consequences are dire.
One of the main sources of identity theft is a stolen password. When e-criminals get their hands on a person’s password, there is usually no end in sight for the things they can do. A common scenario is that a person might use a single password to access many important sites or accounts. Thus, if this single password gets stolen, all of these accounts become a playground of sorts to the thief at hand.
Now, in some friendships or relationships, the sharing of passwords might become a standard practice. Based on how much trust is shared when this happens, it could be a relatively painless transaction. But it’s crucial that you don’t share your passwords with a large number of people, and you don’t share them with just anyone.
If you tell somebody your password or passwords, you are vesting a mountain of trust in them to not let your password slip into the wrong hands. It is critical, then, that you realize just how valuable these passwords are to your well-being, and make keeping them safe a daily priority.
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