Managing a Digital Life
In September, I am working with a colleague to do some training regarding resonsibly managing one’s digital presence, and it has me thinking about the practical aspects of this.
How do other people manage their business online?
As a former tech worker, I can tell you that the most boring part of my job was being called to help the office staff when they had lost their new computer log ins and passwords. We were all required to change all of our passwords weekly, a security measure against …. nothing, as it turned out. When companies force employees to change their passwords so often, employees get frustrated, and security goes down, because one of two things happen - either they recycle the same two or three passwords, or, most likely, they write down their new passwords on Post-It notes, and stick those notes under their keyboard or their mousepad.
75% of the time, my awesome password recovery skills involved me flipping over the mousepad.