{"id":7616,"date":"2012-02-13T17:24:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T00:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/?p=7616"},"modified":"2012-02-13T17:24:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T00:24:21","slug":"watchdog-visualize-your-password-reuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2012\/02\/watchdog-visualize-your-password-reuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog: Visualize your password reuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re releasing <a><strong>another neat little add-on<\/strong><\/a> as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/watchdog-helping-users-manage-passwords-and-privacy\/\">Watchdog<\/a> initiative here at Mozilla Labs. Watchdog aims to help you make wise decisions about your privacy. Unfortunately, if you&#8217;re like many users, it can be hard to see exactly where you are most vulnerable when you have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukew.com\/ff\/entry.asp?1487\">dozens (maybe hundreds) of accounts<\/a> linked to several different passwords.<\/p>\n<p>On the original blog post, I wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You can look at this and pretty quickly figure out where you should start changing your passwords first, and which passwords you should stop reusing. As you change your passwords and update your Firefox password manager, the picture will improve!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This new add-on,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/password-reuse-visualizer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Password Reuse Visualizer<\/a>, renders a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-lHHGPqUrHkI\/TxZmieFObbI\/AAAAAAAAABo\/nsa0f0SsdJA\/s1600\/Screen+shot+2012-01-18+at+1.21.08+AM.png\" target=\"_blank\">visualization<\/a>\u00a0of the different passwords you use, the different sites you visit and the\u00a0<strong>links<\/strong>\u00a0between them. This way, you can quickly see which passwords you&#8217;re overusing and need to change. Hat-tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toolness.com\/wp\/2011\/07\/collusion\/\">Collusion<\/a>, another interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.toolness.com\/xpi\/collusion.html\">Firefox add-on<\/a> with roots in Mozilla Labs, for inspiring some of my thinking about how to visualize password relationships. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/password-reuse-visualizer\/\" title=\"Password Reuse Visualizer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-lHHGPqUrHkI\/TxZmieFObbI\/AAAAAAAAABo\/nsa0f0SsdJA\/s1600\/Screen+shot+2012-01-18+at+1.21.08+AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"562\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/connectioni.st\/2012\/01\/visualize-your-password-reuse.html\" target=\"_blank\">detailed writeup<\/a> (with more screenshots!), and as always, we&#8217;d love for you to take a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mozilla\/watchdog-visualize-passwords\" target=\"_blank\">source code<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re releasing another neat little add-on as part of the Watchdog initiative here at Mozilla Labs. Watchdog aims to help you make wise decisions about your privacy. Unfortunately, if you&#8217;re like many users, it can be hard to see &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2012\/02\/watchdog-visualize-your-password-reuse\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,19430],"tags":[5868,8624,847],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}