What Ven Thinks!

For the past month, I’ve been having a very frustrating issue with Firefox. Not frustrating enough to send me back to using IE, but close enough.

On some websites, I would get weird display issues with text, such as odd jumbles of characters as seen here.

On other websites the text would not display at all and I would see blank space or odd lines on the page where the text should be, making it impossible to read quite a few of the blogs and other websites I’m interested in.

After countless hours of searching for a solution, I finally found the answer. According to this post on Mozilla, I know, I know, I should have looked there first, the

Everybody has passwords; at home, at work, everywhere you look. If you’re active on the internet, you probably have more passwords than you can count. The question is… Are your passwords secure?

If you’re like a majority of the people mentioned in this article, you’re passwords are probably not as secure as you think. The article mentions that “even though hacking techniques have become better, users of today are no wiser than those 20 years ago.” I don’t agree with that statement. I don’t think the problem is lack of knowledge about the risks of insecure passwords. I think the problem is people not understanding how to create truly secure passwords that are also easy to remember.

Most recommendations tell you not to use names of family members or pets, birth dates, phone numbers, etc., but people use them anyway. Why? Because THOSE are the passwords that