I've noticed a handful of websites recently that offer to save those burdensome passwords everyone hates in an easy-to-access online database. Do people really go for this? Does anyone anywhere think to themselves, "I hate saving all these passwords offline where only I have access to them - hey, here's an idea! I could save them online in (probably) unencrypted format with an almost surely hackable website 'securing' them!"? And people wonder why we have a problem with identity theft in this day and age?
Here's my thought at this point about how easy it is to fool someone into giving you their full information: give it a good layout with lots of happy-looking stock models and a domain name that sounds authentic; something like "911ronpaulobamaabortionintegritycolbert.com" ought to suffice. After that, it's easy as cake to convince the user that all their information will be safely secured online in your "hacker-proof" vault of information.
I'll be hiding in my fallout shelter if anyone needs me, I'm just waiting for the end of the world.
