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Re: New feature: Article rating
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:13:03 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
You can sign in once with your password and stay permanently signed in.

And how secure is that?

Well, obviously, don't do that on a machine that's not under your control.
That's for your home system or your laptop -- whatever you use regularly.


I'm sensing that you're dug into this position and are now in Defensive Mode.

No, not dug in, just a bit skeptical and need to think changes through
carefully.  No doubts that you could pick an excellent password.  It's the
average non-geek who is the potential weak link.

Your use of many different machines may be an extreme case, but clearly the
current situation is quite broken for you, and probably many others.

--Todd



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  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) I'm thinking of the fairly large percentage of UTK students who live in the dorms but don't own computers. Those kids use my labs (or various friends' machines) for all of their net business. (24 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) ! 
  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) Mode. (...) OK, make me confirm my confirm (each time warning the non geeky that maybe, just maybe, they ought to use the one the were given) when I go to pick my password, then subject it to a few quick checks to see if it was a good choice (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) Yep, you can be sure he's not the only one. I have two computers at home, but regardless I often get online from the school library or the ESL room (1). At those times I can only read, not post or rate or anything. OTOH, when I want to read my (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) And how secure is that? I'm sensing that you're dug into this position and are now in Defensive Mode. Whatever. Fact is, I use a lot of different machines, not all under my control, sometimes at a different client each week. Cookies in that (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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