RE: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy.

2012-08-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
bject: Re: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy. On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Maglinger, Paul wrote: > http://preview.tinyurl.com/8zcu8sy "And that's because most of us already have five unique passwords to remember and it taxes our memory." Five. Five? I pro

Re: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy.

2012-08-24 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > You work in IT admin - passwords are something you deal with every day. And so do all who have more than one online account for most anything. > Probably bank tellers have few(er) issues remembering multiple bank > account numbers, but I thi

RE: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy.

2012-08-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
rs Ken -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 25 August 2012 3:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy. On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > You work in IT admin - passwords are somet

RE: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy.

2012-08-24 Thread Jon Harris
not be wise but for personal use I would think it works well. Jon > From: k...@adopenstatic.com > To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com > Subject: RE: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy. > Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 05:35:06 + > > I disagree. > > Car manufacturers h

Re: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy.

2012-08-25 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > I disagree. > > Car manufacturers have been constantly finding ways to make our driving > experience > safer, and less stressful. Whilst it still requires some level of > co-ordination, skill and > concentration to drive a car, it is far sa

Re: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy.

2012-08-25 Thread Kurt Buff
Ken, I made a small mistake in my comment to your analogy with cars - the word isn't irrelevant, it's more along the lines of mistaken. Consider how advanced the car industry was after 40 years. Not very. And 70+ years after that it's still not "safe". Computing is more complex, and will take even

RE: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy.

2012-08-25 Thread Ken Schaefer
ack Y to bypass it, because your product is vulnerable, or doesn't yet detect Y Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 26 August 2012 3:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy. Ken, I made a

Re: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy.

2012-08-27 Thread Andrew S. Baker
use your product is vulnerable, or > doesn't yet detect Y > > Cheers > Ken > > -Original Message- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, 26 August 2012 3:01 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OT : Humor only an Admin ca

RE: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy.

2012-08-27 Thread Kennedy, Jim
ng in our industry, something driving us to make a safer mouse trap. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 12:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy. Well said, Ken. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessin

Re: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy.

2012-08-27 Thread Andrew S. Baker
ould be used against that company? That's completely naïve. If I know > you are using product X, at version X, then I know that I can use > vector/attack Y to bypass it, because your product is vulnerable, or > doesn't yet detect Y > > > Cheers > Ken > > -

Re: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy.

2012-08-28 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 24 Aug 2012 at 22:15, Kurt Buff wrote: > It is an unfounded whinge. The world is a complex and sometimes > dangerous place, and the online world is more so. All of us, users > included, need to suck it up, realize that what we do has > consequences, and that practicing safe computing is like p