# Should I renew my subscription? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 20, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-renew-my-subscription/295426 "2005-03-20T15:35:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-renew-my-subscription/295426/21 "2005-03-30T09:50:10Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > (looks around desparately for a signal that this is a joke. finds none. wails loudly enough to wake up the dog.) > > _Won’t somebody think of the non-repudiation!_ > > You’re not joking? I realize this is “just” a message board, but I do hand-to-hand combat against this sort of misbehavior all day long. > > Your friendly neighborhood security administrator’s begging you to implement a means to allow 3rd-party payments without sharing passwords. Huh? What’s the problem? I recently paid for someone’s subscription – method was [ol][li]“someone” **changed their password** to, say, “123456” (actually, something else more truly resembling a password)[_]… e-mailed me the new password [_]… I logged on as “someone”, using the e-mailed password, and paid for their subscription [\*]… I e-mailed “someone” a “mission accomplished” note [/li]AND (presumably) [li]… “someone” changed their password yet again. [/ol][/li] Sure, it’s a question of trust – I **could** theoretically have hijacked the account by changing the password and the e-mail address and then reactivating, effectively locking “someone” out. But as long as the two-party trust is there, I don’t see the problem _vis-a-vis_ the rest of the world. Dani [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-renew-my-subscription/295426.md?page=1)