Password Panic

Got another email about 22 million passwords leaked. The panic instructions, the ritual password changes, the temporary feeling of being on top of things—it’s theater that stopped meaning anything a few years ago. These breaches happen constantly now, and I’ve made peace with the fact that my data is probably compromised somewhere on some server I’ll never know about. You can’t live in constant digital panic, so you don’t. You change the passwords that matter, ignore the rest, and get on with your day. The whole system is designed to make you feel simultaneously helpless and guilty, and at a certain point you just stop letting it work on you.