{"id":43727,"date":"2013-05-02T18:19:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T22:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-11-28T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T21:12:34","slug":"password-infomercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/password-infomercial\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Spoofs Password Infomercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cheezburger.com\/2740476672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-108356\" title=\"Ellen Spoofs Password Infomercial\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Password_Dog-7.jpg?resize=133%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ellen Spoofs Password Infomercial\" width=\"133\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Password_Dog-7.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Password_Dog-7.jpg?resize=75%2C56&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Password_Dog-7.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"View all posts by Graham Cluley\" href=\"http:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/author\/gcluley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Graham Cluley<\/a> at <a title=\"Sophos\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sophos&#8217;s<\/a> <a title=\"Naked Security\" href=\"http:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Naked Security Blog<\/em><\/a> recently <a title=\"You won't believe how crazy this password infomercial is (and neither did Ellen DeGeneres) [VIDEO]\" href=\"http:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2013\/04\/19\/ellen-password-security-infomercial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blogged<\/a> about a crazy <strong>password infomercial<\/strong> and day-time TV talk show host <strong>Ellen DeGeneres&#8217;<\/strong> reaction to the late-night advert. The infomercial that caught the <a title=\"Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0379623\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">talk show host&#8217;s<\/a> attention proves that you can always rely on <strong>late-night TV to try to sell you anything<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-108358 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Ellen DeGeneres\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeGeneres_Ellen.jpg?resize=58%2C75&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ellen DeGeneres\" width=\"58\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeGeneres_Ellen.jpg?resize=58%2C75&amp;ssl=1 58w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeGeneres_Ellen.jpg?resize=115%2C150&amp;ssl=1 115w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeGeneres_Ellen.jpg?w=220&amp;ssl=1 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 58px) 100vw, 58px\" \/>Ellen DeGeneres<\/strong> recently <a title=\"Ellen DeGeneres Show\" href=\"http:\/\/scrapbook.ellentv.com\/post\/47657511827\/ellen-didnt-think-the-internet-password-minder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">focused some attention<\/a> on a product that claimed to solve a computer security problem experienced by many inner-webs users &#8211; how to <strong>remember your passwords<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s the link to the <a title=\"Link to YouTube video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Srh_TV_J144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> below about the &#8220;Internet Password Minder&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Srh_TV_J144?start=18\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As one of the customers featured in the infomercial breathlessly explains:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><tt>\"I don't have to worry anymore about security or identity theft... I now have all my passwords in one place. It's great\"<\/tt><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, this is not a put-up by the &#8220;Ellen&#8221; show. As Ellen amusingly asks, wouldn&#8217;t it be cheaper to save money and write all your passwords on a $5 bill? You could even keep the (patent-pending &#8211; don&#8217;t steal the idea!) $5 bill password minder in your wallet if you liked &#8211; much more convenient than the book-sized Internet Password Minder!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-108361\" title=\"hard-to-crack password\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/jackhammer-e1570806655549-150x113.jpg?resize=146%2C110&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"hard-to-crack password\" width=\"146\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/jackhammer-e1570806655549.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/jackhammer-e1570806655549.jpg?resize=75%2C57&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/jackhammer-e1570806655549.jpg?w=220&amp;ssl=1 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/>Sophos offers a <a title=\"Link to YouTube video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VYzguTdOmmU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> explaining how to generate a tough, hard-to-crack password that is still easy to remember. If you can&#8217;t remember your passwords and have difficulty juggling different passwords for different websites, then Sophos recommends <strong>password management software<\/strong> like <a title=\"KeePass\" href=\"https:\/\/keepass.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KeePass<\/a>, <a title=\"1Password\" href=\"https:\/\/agilebits.com\/onepassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1Password<\/a> or <a title=\"LastPass\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lastpass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LastPass<\/a>. I have covered the password <a title=\"Mommy Hacker\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p2wgaW-4St\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issue<\/a> <a title=\"25 Most-Used Passwords Revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p2wgaW-4zA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many<\/a> <a title=\"First Computer Passwords Useless\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p2wgaW-3Fx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many<\/a> <a title=\"Students \u2013 Insider Threat At School\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p2wgaW-1F6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many<\/a> <a title=\"Password Insecurity\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p2wgaW-uw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">times<\/a> <a title=\"How-secure-is-my-password Tells You\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p2wgaW-1yn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">before.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cluley pointed <a title=\"Link to Ellen&#039;s website\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130731115651\/http:\/\/www.ellentv.com\/2013\/04\/10\/out-of-your-password-minder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">comment<\/a> on Ellen&#8217;s website from someone who claims to be the woman in the infomercial who no longer worries about identity theft.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>rb-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I don&#8217;t watch The Ellen Show (I work during the day), but I know my mom does so a hat-tip to Ellen for raising awareness of password security issues with her large TV audience in an amusing way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Those of us charged with keeping our clients and parents safe from the cyber-malcontents on the Intertubes, need all the help we can get, even if is from as unlikely a source as Ellen DeGeneres. Maybe now mom will stop asking me to change all of the passwords to something easier.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you think that Ellen&#8217;s spoof of the password infomercial helps the cyber-security cause?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<div id=\"polls-18\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_18\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_18_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"3623843c4d\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"18\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Do you think that Ellen's spoof of the password infomerical helps or hurts the cyber-security cause?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-18-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-49\" name=\"poll_18\" value=\"49\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-49\">Helps<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-50\" name=\"poll_18\" value=\"50\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-50\">Hurts<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(18);\" onkeypress=\"poll_result(18);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(18); return false;\" onkeypress=\"poll_result(18); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-18-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2013\/04\/23\/users-same-password-most-websites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">55% of net users use the same password for most, if not all, websites. When will they learn?<\/a> (nakedsecurity.sophos.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV celeb Ellen DeGeneres boosts cyber-security for Moms everywhere with a spoof a late-night bad idea infomercial password saver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3044,1609,1608,1610,1834,2541,4,281],"class_list":["post-43727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-3044","tag-ellen","tag-keepass","tag-lastpass","tag-management","tag-passwords","tag-security","tag-sophos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43727"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132838,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43727\/revisions\/132838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}