On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 06:56:15AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > Bruce Schneier recommends writing passwords down and then keeping the > > document containing them secure. > > Andrei writes: > > Not everybody has the luxury of typing password without danger of > > someone taking a peek over the shoulder. > > True but the admonition isn't "Don't write down passwords if you cannot > read them back securely". It's "Never, ever, ever write down a password > no matter what!"
This violates my preferred maxim: "all generalizations suck". Yeah, I know it's self-referential and contains (kinda) a negation in it. The most interesting advances in last century's maths and computer science happened in this vein ;-) Cheers -- tomás
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