Asklemmy

43791 readers

860 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

124

What secret do you know that could ruin someone else's life? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

82 comments fedilink hide all child comments

~~Probably a boring answer but~~ I know my grandmother's credit card information. I live with and help take care of her, so she doesn't mind sharing it with me. Not like I'm planning to do anything nefarious, but I guess technically it could ruin her financially.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely, but unless you do stick it to the monitor, you still rely on them remembering where the note is, what it's for, and keeping it around.

And keeping some passwords in your wallet is only safe for as long as you don't also include what they are for. Which would be necessary in this case...

I obviously also forbid them from using the same password for everything, which meant that even when they did write their passwords down, finding it was a scavenger hunt that's an even bigger time-waste than a password reset. Because they never kept them organized or in even in one place!