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What's the absolute worst that could happen if you crack my free account on some cooking website?

Maybe you favorite a bunch of recipes with lima beans (which I hate). Instead, you discover that I was really into lentil dishes for a while, but have been more interested in dumplings this fall. Maybe this could be used in some sort of elaborate social engineering scheme that nets you more valuable information, but I'm not seeing how....

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> What's the absolute worst that could happen if you crack my free account on some cooking website?

The worst that could happen is that you used the same password there as for your online banking, or important e-mail account and such.

If you didn't do that, then the impact is approximately zero.

Of course, that cooking site still wants you to use a sufficiently long password with at least one digit, capital and lower case letter, and special character ...

Wherever you can publish text or media (eg, on a cooking site) speech crimes can be committed under your account.

Fancy a prison term in one of the more enlightened European jurisdictions, or Canada?

Okay, I set myself up for this by saying "absolute worst", but this strikes me as so unlikely that it's not really worth worrying about. After all, someone could make a new account using your name (+ some numbers) /right now/!

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