Self Protection?

Common attitudes and advice
with regard to computer use
often leaves me mystified.

They are great for finding folks with,
but as people simulate meeting each other
we go well beyond 'common sense'
with people we are unlikely to meet.
Were they not taking part in it too
then  it would make writers science fiction
feel positively jealous of the potential for connection.

But the human problem is security;
the more sites an internet user visits,
for finance, dating, work, games, shopping,
and the simulation of sex then the greater
the amount of digital protection required.
The more the passwords have to kept safe.
because viruses are the digital equivalent
of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

Mostly we keep our passwords in the laptop,
not in our heads or privately written down
-which they are discouraged from doing.
'No Phishing here' should be the clear sign
from solid security against all would-be invaders.

The paradox is that each password
is meant to be unique, unguessable,
and yet memorable to the owner.
For it to be easily memorized
then it has to be drawn from life.
But the more of our lives we put
on the internet then the more we have
to keep some life off it, and say to ourselves
'This is for just us, and good for passwords.'.

Bur whose life is so unique it is safe from plunder?
Not mine, I learned that when I lived my analogue life.