Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-08-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 31 iul 12, 17:57:38, Bob Proulx wrote: The problem is how many of those can you keep straight in your head? How many web sites and systems all need one of those unique passwords? And you aren't reusing those passwords on multiple unrelated sites are you? As with all things xkcd has

[OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Mike McClain
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 08:31:56PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 06:15:26PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:54:14 -0500 John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: Hello John, Brad Rogers writes: Yeah, on a Post-It note. Stuck to the monitor.

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/31/2012 10:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote: If a password is any place but in your head I question its security Agreed. Take a name and a number out of your childhood that you'll remember forever like your first pet and the first phone number you memorized, scrambled together. For

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike McClain wrote: If a password is any place but in your head I question its security but here's a scheme for secure passwords that are not subject to dictionary lookups and are easy to remember. Take a name and a number out of your childhood that you'll remember forever like

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Glenn English
On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/31/2012 10:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote: If a password is any place but in your head I question its security Agreed. Dud'n work, guys. I fell off my bike a couple years ago and completely lost all my passwords. Rebuilding my

Re: [OT] secure passwords

2012-07-31 Thread John Hasler
Bob writes: If you have some scheme of encoding the site into the password using some algorithm unique and secure to you then great. I generate truly random passwords and write them down. So do I. The problem is that the _general public_ is constantly being told Never, ever, ever write down

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread lina
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 7/31/2012 10:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote: If a password is any place but in your head I question its security Agreed. Take a name and a number out of your childhood that you'll remember forever like your

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/31/2012 7:03 PM, Glenn English wrote: Dud'n work, guys. I fell off my bike a couple years ago and completely lost all my passwords. Rebuilding my servers (and laptops and iPads) was no fun at all. Write 'em down and put the paper in a safe-deposit box. If you can't remember the

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread lina
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Glenn English g...@slsware.com wrote: On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/31/2012 10:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote: If a password is any place but in your head I question its security Agreed. Dud'n work, guys. I fell off my bike a couple

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Glenn English wrote: Dud'n work, guys. I fell off my bike a couple years ago and completely lost all my passwords. Rebuilding my servers (and laptops and iPads) was no fun at all. Write 'em down and put the paper in a safe-deposit box. If you can't remember the

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Glenn English
On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Fortunately for most of us there is the support group of family.They know these things and would help me with them. I was 67 years old when it happened, and the family I have left is 1000 miles away. Fortunately, my sister flew here to take