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SUBJECT:
Re: [GTALUG] "AI" on getting correct technical answers
DATE:
2024-01-16 08:54
FROM:
Ron / BCLUG via talk <[email protected]>
TO:
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Steve Petrie via talk wrote on 2024-01-16 05:41:
Ahhhh. SSO (single sign on) -- Is it an SSO offer, when my Firefox
browser "helpfully" asks me if I would like it [my browser] to
"remember" my login credentials ??
[rb]
No, SSO where one signs in to a site they've never visited via their
Google or GitHub account, for example.
[sp]
I always respond in the NEGATIVE to these "helpful" browser offers.
So, you type in user and password every time you log into every site?
I can't imagine the internet being very useful in that case, but
everyone's got different risk tolerances, plus I may be misunderstanding
your method of logging in to sites.
[sp]
No. You're not misunderstanding me.
I obsessively type in my userid and super-long obsessively randomized
password EVERY TIME I sign on my Firefox browser to my webmail service.
In fact, I type in EVERYWHERE a super-long obsessively randomized
password, EVERYWHERE A PASSWORD IS REQUIRED.
(This absurdly over-the-top hyper-anal security-obsessive behaviour, is
likely a happy combination of: (1) innate masochism, smoothly blended
with (2) a tight-assed White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) obsessive
detail-orientation, (3) sweetly encapsulated with the vestiges of an
engineering education.
The ridiculously obsessive webmail sign on, has become so habitual, it
only takes me a few seconds, because I have perfectly memorized my very
long and obsessively randomized password.
Every such keyboard-laborious sign on, gives me a tiny thrill of
pleasure, in knowing that my very long and obsessively randomized
password is extremely spoof-proof.
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[rb]
I guess I don't understand how having one's browser save username and
(hopefully long) password combos gets "scare quotes" around "helpful".
[sp]
Kindly forgive my lack of mailing list etiquette knowledge. I didn't
know that use of scare quotes conveyed such implications. My use of
scare quotes was merely for emphasis. Hopefully, a use of bolding
instead of scare quotes will improve my list etiquette skill rating :)
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