Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

2015-02-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 02/17/2015 04:11 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: > On 02/17/2015 04:05 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: >> All the talk about solving the password problem is interesting - but >> not related to the original question - >> >> What is the most common, or most important, area that you actually >> see p

Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

2015-02-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 02/17/2015 10:15 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > So. Someone replied directly to me instead of the list suggesting that > character length is an important factor in password security. > > Letter count is a pointless factor in password security. "Four score > and seven years ago" is 30 characters and

Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

2015-02-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 02/18/2015 11:20 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Richard Pieri > wrote: >> So. Someone replied directly to me instead of the list suggesting that >> character length is an important factor in password security. >> >> Letter count is a pointless factor in password se

Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

2015-02-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 02/18/2015 12:30 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 2/18/2015 11:20 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: >> And the same users are going to use "Four score " if you require >> longer passwords, >> so you lose anyway. > > I did preface that with "[p]assword reform starts with...". > > Key chain managers can

Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

2015-02-21 Thread MBR
If you're going to tell us all about how the originating company is stiffing you, at least tell us the company's name so we can steer clear of them. Mark Rosenthal On 2/20/15 10:23 PM, Peter Olson wrote: I've been mugged three times, but not recently. The first time was in Cambridge, abou