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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1706690"><p>Hazel, the language is the same. Here at this website, you log in ONCE to get access. If, as Slydude said, you then tell it to remember you, it puts a cookie on your system that says, "Hey, you know this one!" and the board doesn't ask for your login again from that machine. Once into the website, you can go to any of the forums here freely.</p><p></p><p>That other place you listed is the Apple discussion forum, where people can post questions or comments. That is a totally different website, run by Apple, not the folks who own/run this website. </p><p></p><p>As a general rule, you should never use the same login password at two different websites. That is poor security practice. You should have a unique password for each website that uses login for access. Given that there are many websites you might visit (here, your bank, Amazon, etc., etc.) you may want to look at some third party software for password management. I use 1Password for that for me. It not only remembers my passwords, it has a component that can enter that information for me when it recognizes that I am on a login site it has seen before. And when I create passwords, it generates nonsense passwords for me that are very secure. I have it set for 13 characters long, mixing upper and lower case, numbers and symbols as a default. So I get passwords like "uPe3%KLp5tTvB" that are very hard to crack. And I don't have to remember them, 1Password does that for me. </p><p></p><p>I didn't mean to turn this into a tutorial on Security, or an advertisement for 1Password, sorry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1706690"] Hazel, the language is the same. Here at this website, you log in ONCE to get access. If, as Slydude said, you then tell it to remember you, it puts a cookie on your system that says, "Hey, you know this one!" and the board doesn't ask for your login again from that machine. Once into the website, you can go to any of the forums here freely. That other place you listed is the Apple discussion forum, where people can post questions or comments. That is a totally different website, run by Apple, not the folks who own/run this website. As a general rule, you should never use the same login password at two different websites. That is poor security practice. You should have a unique password for each website that uses login for access. Given that there are many websites you might visit (here, your bank, Amazon, etc., etc.) you may want to look at some third party software for password management. I use 1Password for that for me. It not only remembers my passwords, it has a component that can enter that information for me when it recognizes that I am on a login site it has seen before. And when I create passwords, it generates nonsense passwords for me that are very secure. I have it set for 13 characters long, mixing upper and lower case, numbers and symbols as a default. So I get passwords like "uPe3%KLp5tTvB" that are very hard to crack. And I don't have to remember them, 1Password does that for me. I didn't mean to turn this into a tutorial on Security, or an advertisement for 1Password, sorry. [/QUOTE]
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