(OT) Google: "Somebody knows your password"

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 19:52:26 +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
>Now I'm a little jumpy because someone could steal my password...

Why? It happens all the times that those companies get hacked and
criminals share all the data they get from the accounts. Usually you
don't get informed about it, when it happens, at the earliest the news
report about it a few weeks later, when it leaks. However, the postman
could read your postcards, so you don't write secrets on a postcard. If
you care about privacy, then you shouldn't fear hackers that much, as
you should fear a company such as Google. Before you care about
criminal hackers, the NSA and something similar, keep in mind how
Google benefits from providing you an account for free as in beer. Your
account is nothing more than a postcard, it isn't a vault.