(OT) Google: "Somebody knows your password"

[Volker Wysk]

Am Sonntag, 6. August 2017, 21:01:24 CEST schrieb 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. 

I wasn't aware that this is taking place. I thought someone might have stolen 
it from me.

Since, I've hardly used my google account. It's just for the google services 
in my smartphone (all turned off, except for the Play Store), and Gmail (which 
I've never used). Google should be the only one having my google password 
(except for me). 

> 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.

That's something clear to me.

Thnx
Volker