VessOnSecurity@bontchev@infosec.exchange
So, my 83-year old aunt in California, who is a ballerina by education and for whom I occasionally do PC tech support from across the globe, reached to me with a weird question yesterday:
"Can you have two different passwords for e-mail?"
After the initial "WTF" moment, I thought about it for a bit, tried to factor her non-existent knowledge of how computer stuff works and answered:
"Well, it depends what you mean by 'e-mail' and by 'password'."
"The same thing you do," was the reply.
"I very much doubt that," I wisely didn't say.
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VessOnSecurity@bontchev@infosec.exchange
"Well," I tried to explain, "one uses passwords to log into accounts. Each account can have only one password but if you have different accounts, each one of them can have a different password - and this is, indeed, preferable. For instance, I have e-mail accounts at Yahoo, Google, my work, and a bunch of other places, and each uses a different password."
"I didn't understand half of what you said," was the reply, "but I have only one e-mail - hotmail."
"Well, then," I reasonably reacted, "you should have only one password for it. Can you show me what the problem is, instead of trying to explain it?".
