slap the taste out yo mouf

Not Facebook, asking you to violate your agreement with your ISP by sharing your email password with them for their "Friend Finder" "feature"?

Funny, that PSA came up in my head like a week ago and I watched it on Youtube.

FTFA: It made me feel safer just because someone was there to help me out and stuff

That's not how the Internet works!

Since I trust all of you, here's my Fark password: 987654321

Wasn't this covered in a George-heavy episode of Seinfeld once?

Any questions?

dopeydwarf: This just in: teens are dumber than fark. And if you're an adult but behave like a teen, guess what? You're dumb as fark too.

/Fark: smarter than teenagers since 1999.

Have a joint bank account? Own shared assets with someone else? On the same health account as your spouse?

/way to miss the point of the article
//or are you one of those bitter farkers who's spouse dumped them?

It's a scientifically proven fact that teenagers are idiots.

skinink: Since I trust all of you, here's my Fark password: 987654321

SWeet mine is 8675309.

I'm Jenny, what's your name?

One of the best parts of my job is remotely watching students (middle school) use computers. I've watched them "hack" parents, brothers, grandparents' passwords by guessing clues or outright guessing password. A lot of them are birthday related. And the rest just share accounts because they are too young to have their own.
And the worst, they automatically click the save password button.
But I have never seen one student tell another their password. They seem to get that.

skinink: Since I trust all of you, here's my Fark password: 987654321

FTA:There are different ways that parents address the password issue, but they almost always build on the narrative of trust. (Tangent: My favorite strategy is when parents ask children to put passwords into a piggy bank that must be broken for the paper with the password to be retrieved. Such parents often explain that they don't want to access their teens' accounts, but they want to have the ability to do so "in case of emergency." A piggy bank allows a social contract to take a physical form.)

Do kids fall for that? The parents only need to buy 2 identical piggy banks.

CSB:

I had a psycho ex who demanded my email passwords as a sign of trust. Foolishly, I thought I had nothing to hide, and even more foolishly, I agreed. Back in those innocent days, I didn't realise how an insecure mind can see infidelity in perfectly ordinary things. Eventually, she deleted the entire contents of my Gmail account because she thought "I didn't need it anymore." When I changed the password (thereby revoking her access to it) because of this, she accused me of hiding things.

I'm not going to come out of this story looking good, so I'll aim for weenie rather than pants-on-head stupid: she was violent and scary and intimidating, and I am none of those things. (that, and eventually you get to the point where you just want the shrieking to stop, so you agree to whatever shuts her up).

UncleStumpy: skinink: Since I trust all of you, here's my Fark password: 987654321

SWeet mine is 8675309.

I'm Jenny, what's your name?

His name is Tal, and you'd make a good couple.

Bondith: CSB:

I had a psycho ex who demanded my email passwords as a sign of trust. Foolishly, I thought I had nothing to hide, and even more foolishly, I agreed. Back in those innocent days, I didn't realise how an insecure mind can see infidelity in perfectly ordinary things. Eventually, she deleted the entire contents of my Gmail account because she thought "I didn't need it anymore." When I changed the password (thereby revoking her access to it) because of this, she accused me of hiding things.

I'm not going to come out of this story looking good, so I'll aim for weenie rather than pants-on-head stupid: she was violent and scary and intimidating, and I am none of those things. (that, and eventually you get to the point where you just want the shrieking to stop, so you agree to whatever shuts her up).

I'd say that sounds like my Ex, but it's a pretty common phenomenon apparently. biatches be crazy.

talkertopc: FTA:There are different ways that parents address the password issue, but they almost always build on the narrative of trust. (Tangent: My favorite strategy is when parents ask children to put passwords into a piggy bank that must be broken for the paper with the password to be retrieved. Such parents often explain that they don't want to access their teens' accounts, but they want to have the ability to do so "in case of emergency." A piggy bank allows a social contract to take a physical form.)

Do kids fall for that? The parents only need to buy 2 identical piggy banks.

This gets a "smart" vote

talkertopc: FTA:There are different ways that parents address the password issue, but they almost always build on the narrative of trust. (Tangent: My favorite strategy is when parents ask children to put passwords into a piggy bank that must be broken for the paper with the password to be retrieved. Such parents often explain that they don't want to access their teens' accounts, but they want to have the ability to do so "in case of emergency." A piggy bank allows a social contract to take a physical form.)

Do kids fall for that? The parents only need to buy 2 identical piggy banks.

They just want their parents to believe so. And then, they will use secret FB, email, and whatever accounts, and will also install keyloggers on their parent's computers. So it's okay.

/not all kids are dumb

There was a thread not to long ago about this. If I had the skills I would have just shopped bonus checks into the hands of some Execs.talkertopc: FTA:There are different ways that parents address the password issue, but they almost always build on the narrative of trust. (Tangent: My favorite strategy is when parents ask children to put passwords into a piggy bank that must be broken for the paper with the password to be retrieved. Such parents often explain that they don't want to access their teens' accounts, but they want to have the ability to do so "in case of emergency." A piggy bank allows a social contract to take a physical form.)

Do kids fall for that? The parents only need to buy 2 identical piggy banks.

My son is 5. I can only imagine his computer creativity when he's 10. Are you up-to-date on security? My Dad has a 63 character password because he's paranoid. Which way are we going to go?

* parents'

/OTOH I are dumb

Bondith: I had a psycho ex who demanded my email passwords as a sign of trust.

"Honey, you can look over my shoulder while I'm reading email but I ain't giving you my password."

KStDrew: UncleStumpy: skinink: Since I trust all of you, here's my Fark password: 987654321

SWeet mine is 8675309.

I'm Jenny, what's your name?

His name is Tal, and you'd make a good couple.

Hot, blonde?

Bondith: CSB:

I had a psycho ex who demanded my email passwords as a sign of trust. Foolishly, I thought I had nothing to hide, and even more foolishly, I agreed. Back in those innocent days, I didn't realise how an insecure mind can see infidelity in perfectly ordinary things. Eventually, she deleted the entire contents of my Gmail account because she thought "I didn't need it anymore." When I changed the password (thereby revoking her access to it) because of this, she accused me of hiding things.

I'm not going to come out of this story looking good, so I'll aim for weenie rather than pants-on-head stupid: she was violent and scary and intimidating, and I am none of those things. (that, and eventually you get to the point where you just want the shrieking to stop, so you agree to whatever shuts her up).

Ohhh, dude. Tell me you didn't end up marrying her.

You'll never guess the password to my luggage. It's definitely NOT 1-2-3-4-5, btw.

And how is exactly sharing a password is a sign of trust? To me it's exactly the opposite.

I trust you that you will not do stupid things and I will not be checking your activity so I don't need your password.

vs

I don't have faith in your judgment and I want to be checking everything you do so give me your password, or else.

No?

Woah, way to randomly flash back to the 80s. I found the original commercial on Youtube and showed it to my mom a few years ago, she got a kick out of it.

My sister & I use to say that line to her whenever she biatched at us for doing something we had seen her do.

Very clever, subby ... very clever.

ALRIGHT!

not "all right"

bungle_jr: ALRIGHT!

not "all right"

Supposably, most dictionaries still spell it as two word, but for all intensive purposes it doesn't matter. Irregardless, I find that the one-word variant make you look like an amature.

traylor: And how is exactly sharing a password is a sign of trust? To me it's exactly the opposite.

I trust you that you will not do stupid things and I will not be checking your activity so I don't need your password.

vs

I don't have faith in your judgment and I want to be checking everything you do so give me your password, or else.

No?

I agree-- if you're asking for a password, there's no trust.

If it's offered unsolicited, however, that shows trust.

I had an ex who gave me all of his internet passwords within our first 3 weeks of dating. I thought that was really odd... but it did show he trusted me. In the 3 years we dated, I only checked into his accounts twice and only because he asked me to. There was some real trust there on both ends.

I never gave him my passwords though, and I don't think that showed a lack of trust on my part. I just like my privacy. ::shrugs::

/he's a farker... I wonder if he'll check in with his point of view.

Bondith: CSB:
I had a psycho ex who demanded my email passwords as a sign of trust.

Unfortunately, if someone feels that they need access to their spouse's email, they have already made up in their mind that the spouse is unfaithful, and all they need is to find proof. And of course, absence of the proof is not proof of absence in their mind.

Even at work people share passwords, even though it's strictly forbidden. I even try tell the users that as an admin, I don't need to know their passwords, nor do I know what they are. Yet they volunteer their passwords to me all the time.

icepriestess: I had an ex who gave me all of his internet passwords within our first 3 weeks of dating. I thought that was really odd... but it did show he trusted me.

That would actually signal to me one or more of 3 things:

1. This person has no common sense, and will be a financial liability in a long term relationship.
2. This person has a separate account for cheating purposes and is trying too hard to look trustworthy.
3. This person has serious trust issues if they feel this to be necessary.

BMFPitt: icepriestess: I had an ex who gave me all of his internet passwords within our first 3 weeks of dating. I thought that was really odd... but it did show he trusted me.

That would actually signal to me one or more of 3 things:

1. This person has no common sense, and will be a financial liability in a long term relationship.
2. This person has a separate account for cheating purposes and is trying too hard to look trustworthy.
3. This person has serious trust issues if they feel this to be necessary.

1. Yup.

You're right. He was very much option number one. Hence the "ex" part.

Still, despite the utter lack of common sense, he was very trusting. ::shrugs::

skinink: Since I trust all of you, here's my Fark password: 987654321

Ha!
I know that isn't true, because the FARK filters won't let you type your password. It just replaces it with a row of astrix,
I am nonzero and my password is **********

see.
give it a try,
type your password in the thread and when you hit send the filters will replace it.

Guys, don't ask your SO for their passwords, they'll just delete anything they're trying to hide while making you look paranoid and insecure. Instead, put a keylogger on their computer and hack the gps on their phone so you know where they are at all times. It's much more effective.

nonzero: skinink: Since I trust all of you, here's my Fark password: 987654321

Ha!
I know that isn't true, because the FARK filters won't let you type your password. It just replaces it with a row of astrix,
I am nonzero and my password is **********

see.
give it a try,
type your password in the thread and when you hit send the filters will replace it.

****** !!!!!! it works!

That is soooo coool.

Happy Hours: I think you need to qualify that. Some Farkers are dumber than teenagers. Is it 50%? 80%? 20%? It all depends on the given day and given thread. I know I've said some pretty stupid things on Fark (some people have even been nice enough to point out how stupid I was). I like to think I've said some things smarter than most teenagers could come up with.

Im sure most of you find me dumber than anyone on fark but shiat even back in high school I never shared my locker combination with anyone so Im sure as hell not going to share my logins with anyone else.

meh, my wife has most of my passwords for my usual emails, and I have hers but I forgot most as I never bother, she'd give them back if I asked.

Whenever there's something up about an email, I just tell her to log into it to check... no big deal, I have nothing to hide. We're married, and marriage is about trust... and we have nothing to hide, and we respect each other's privacy. So it's simply about "in case" the other mentions to go into their account to check something...

I know that my wife would get bored going through all my archives, and I would be the same.

With the kids.. it's a question that we used my email to set up their accounts (Facebook, etc.)... I don't bother and they have their privacy, but they'd have no issue giving them if required...it's about trust.

And it's about common sense that I raised them with, they'd never give them to anyone else, they understand the crap that it could result in.

First of all, I'd like to open by saying, "like the fist of an angry god."

Secondly, I now know even more how uncool I was in high school, since I never shared a locker combination with anyone.

bravian: Have a joint bank account? Own shared assets with someone else? On the same health account as your spouse?

/way to miss the point of the article
//or are you one of those bitter farkers who's spouse dumped them?

Finally, yes, I do have a joint bank account with a friend of mine. She also has keys to my house, my car, and my mail box. It's handy to have an agent who can keep track of things for me while I'm out of the US fighting the war on terror. A joint bank account is nice since it allows the ability to transfer money to her to pay my property taxes. She's also the executor of my estate.

Fark automatically changes your password to asterisks if you try to post it.

********

That's mine.

seventypercent: Oh, God. I haven't seen that commercial forever, but remember it like it was yesterday.

Ditto.