After reading the assigned material concerning online security and hacking, I realize that, although my internet security practices aren’t absolutely horrendous, they could certainly use some improvement.  I don’t have a password protected screensaver, and, although I tend to use passwords that are around 10 characters long and I avoid opening suspicious emails or attachments, my habits regarding password creation seem to fall under the dangerous trend that was described in Passwords Under Assault.  Namely, I have a nasty and perhaps irresponsible habit of reusing several passwords, and they tend to be created with the end in mind of being hard to guess and by incorporating a capital letter at the beginning and a number at the end.  To increase how secure my accounts are, I intend to broaden the range of passwords I use (better yet, I’ll use unique passwords for each account I make), and vary up my use of capital letters and numbers, using them in a variety of places in my passwords rather than just at the beginnings and ends of them.