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Re: New feature: Article rating
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 05:53:39 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > I really want the ability to set my own password. I've lost my password
> > somewhere and don't have a prayer of remembering what it is. SO I can't
> > rate my articles 100 and Todd's 0 until I either find it again or get my
> > pw set to something easy for me to remember (but impossible for anyone
> > else to get right)
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> Actually, I'd seen someone rating quite a few of your articles highly, and I
> kinda assumed that it was you :) :) My password is kinda easy to remember as
> passwords go, containing my initials, a single repeated digit and a naff name
> that I remember for its naff-ness, all handily symetrically mirrored too! I
> assume that it's an almighty coincidence because I remember Todd saying
> something complex about how they were randomly generated..
It would be a total coincidence, yes, and BTW you shouldn't be giving away
details like that about your password. You just made it 2,050 times easier
for someone to brute-force crack your password. :-(
--Todd
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| (...) Actually, I'd seen someone rating quite a few of your articles highly, and I kinda assumed that it was you :) :) My password is kinda easy to remember as passwords go, containing my initials, a single repeated digit and a naff name that I (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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