The articles provided on the syllabus for this date (unfortunately I could not make it to class on this date) were extremely interesting. The article titled “Kill the Password: A String of Characters Won’t Protect You” by Mat Honan, really spooked me. It was also extremely sad that these hackers would go into his things and delete every picture he had including of his daughter simply for a twitter handle. What scared me the most was the part about reusing passwords because honestly this is something that I have been guilty of for a long time. However, after reading that part of the article I have already started changing my passwords in order to avoid the same tragedy this man went through.  These articles made me realize that if someone was able to get into one of my accounts, then they really could do anything they wanted to. They could take over my twitter, read all my emails, get access to my banking information or anything they wanted. Honestly I feel as though I should say a short thank you to professor O’Malley for bringing this important topic to our attention since it is something I’m sure most of us were not even worried about. It also made me question why companies still use this system when they know the dangers that it has. Are there alternative better ways to protect information and login to websites that is different and more secure than this system? Hopefully these questions begin to be addressed soon so that we can continue to feel secure about the things we want to keep to ourselves.