JAMES LILEKS: Username: Mattress / PW: Under.
The budget program I chose was slick and attractive. Step one: It needed to know how much lucre I had in the bank, of course, so it could warn me that I was running on fumes when I put down the card for a big-ticket item like a TV or a pound of lean ground beef. It asked for my bank password and account numbers.
I stared at the window on the screen, the cursor blinking expectantly in the text field.
I closed the program, uninstalled it, zero’d out my hard drive, removed the hard drive, smashed with a hammer, ran it through a bandsaw a few times, then buried the pieces in six locations ten miles apart.
Then I changed my bank passwords from 123456 to 1234567. Can’t be too safe.
Yes, I am so paranoid about banking account numbers and passwords that the mere act of asking for them made me back out.
Heh, indeed. Read the whole thing.™