Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: What Certified Legal Nurse Consultants Can Learn From LinkedIn
The great password hacking of LinkedIn is about a month behind us, but it’s time I asked my CLNC® amigos – how many of you have changed your LinkedIn password? Even more important, how many Certified Legal Nurse Consultants used the same password on LinkedIn as on other sites? More of you than probably will want to admit.
I’ve long recommended that you keep a written listing of all your passwords somewhere for your family to find when you pass onto the great nursing home in the sky (provided Heavenly secondary care is in your supplemental health insurance coverage), but I know that keeping all those passwords can make you crazy and that you end up using the same passwords across multiple sites. Not the best move. Whoever hacked LinkedIn will probably never take advantage of the 6.5 million passwords that they captured – at least not on LinkedIn but maybe on websites someone actually uses.
When I went to change my Linkedin password I was reminded that I don’t have a LinkedIn account. That meant I didn’t have to change my passwords across umpteen sites. But, if you have a LinkedIn account, whether it’s active or not, it’s time to start changing passwords everywhere because chances are you don’t know all the websites on which you’ve used that same password. It’s your time and your identity – start changing (passwords) before it’s too late.
While you’re at it, eHarmony was also hacked so you better change that password too or, to paraphrase what Desi used to say to Lucy, you may have some ‘splaining to do.
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