John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Todd Walton wrote: >> What security could there be in requiring passwords to be at least a >> day old before you can change them? > > In this topic, the concept of writing down a password was chided as a > bad idea. Someone who knows more about this field than any of us not > only writes down his passwords, but recommends that others do too: > > % lynx -dump > http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/bruce-schneier-blazes-through-your-questions/ > | perl -ne'@a=split;for(@a){print" > $_"if((/Two,/../t\./)||(/es.\)/../b/)>1);print"\n"if/edd/};print"\n--\n"if/d-w/'|fmt > -uw72 > > Two, I write my passwords down. There's this rampant myth that > you shouldn't write your passwords down. My advice is exactly > the opposite. We already know how to secure small bits of paper. > Write your passwords down on a small bit of paper, and put it with > all of your other valuable small bits of paper: in your wallet. > -- > That's why I recommend that people write their passwords down, > as I said before. > > > http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/bruce-schneier-blazes-through-your-questions/ > http://tinyurl.com/2zan6q > > Yes, that was from Bruce Schneier[1] himself. > > -john > > [1] http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/322 That Bruce Schneier.
I wholeheartedly agree. The most secret stuff in the world, nuclear launch codes, are written down on little slips of paper. Which happen to be sealed in many, many layers of other stuff like submarines and missile silos. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
