Mortaine’s Blog

Just as a reminder, and of course I’m not on the Abuse team, but….

The LiveJournal TOS that you agreed to means you have agreed not to:

Upload, post or otherwise transmit any content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);

So, yeah. Everyone using Frienditto to break the security of LiveJournal posts– not only those who are own Frienditto and who have LiveJournals, but also those who go over there and give them usernames and passwords, is basically breaking their contract.

Just a reminder, folks. Posts in someone else’s journal are not yours to do with as you please.

Alladin knocked over my anniversary flowers yesterday. They were on the dining room table. Unfortunately, I didn’t know what that bonking noise was, so I ignored it, to let the water just spill everywhere.

Also on the dining room table were:
Doctor Bills to be paid
Insurance letters re: the house
Six Stanley tape measures
Five of my official Transcripts in the sealed envelopes!
A 5-year-old rejection letter from Circlet Press

Three of the transcripts were water damaged and therefore are now ruined, especially the Hampshire one, which I really can’t submit in the condition it’s in (the UCSC and Cabrillo ones were ok once I took them out of the envelopes).

Today I faxed my authorization requests for new copies. Hopefully, these will get to me in time for the application deadline.

The CV is coming along nicely. I actually think it’s going to be OK.

Call OBGYN today re: pills
Arrange letters of rec., go to SJSU
Clean kitty litter
Call Hampshire and FAX transcript requests
Get The Real Book in B-flat
Get a music stand
Get a niddy-noddy
Get Kitten food
Plan and write paper proposals
Finish “Copy” and submit it
Practice
Pack

Hi. Yes, it’s PSA time.

I hope that nobody in my friends list did this, but you never know.

Frienditto is not your friend. If you went there and gave them your LiveJournal username and password, kindly go here RIGHT NOW and change your LiveJournal password. Frienditto is a site that basically uses *your* username and password to compromise your friends’ protected entries and post them publicly. Yes, it’s basically breaking your trust with your friends. But hey, *you* gave them your password.

Here’s my advice on third-party sites: Don’t give them your password. If you decide you really really really want to use that service, go change your password first to something you never use (this assumes you’re like me and use the same password for multiple items), then give it to them, then change it back to your normal password.

More security advice: If you have over 70 passwords (like I do), categorize them by risk level:

Low security: Use the same password for a whole bunch of sites, like registration-only bulletin boards, memes, and the like. These sites are for publicly-viewable chatting, with no exchange of personal or sensitive information. I also use them for signing up on websites that require registration just to send an email to the site owner, for instance.

Mid-security: Sites like Yahoo!, where there’s some privacy involved, or where I may store sensitive information. I’ll use the same password for these sites, but it’ll be a harder to guess password. I would use this password on IM accounts, but if you’re on IM a lot, you might want to go with high security for those.

High security: Your primary email account, which someone might use to impersonate you. Any account which someone could or would successfully impersonate you with. Any account that gives access to your money (PayPal, eBay, online banking). Any account that has one-click shopping (amazon.com). Any account that can be used to get passwords for other accounts (usually your primary email account). Any account in which you have sensitive, personal, or embarassing information, or which such information about others has been entrusted to you (ex: LiveJournal). EACH HIGH SECURITY ACCOUNT MUST HAVE ITS OWN SECURE, HARD-TO-GUESS PASSWORD!! I use a password program on my PDA to track all my passwords, and recommend it to anyone looking for such a solution (it’s called Password Store and is made by Standalone Software).

I made some minor changes and sent the proposal to the person in charge. Wish me luck and a fast response!