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Re: New feature: Article rating
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:29:57 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > > You can sign in once with your password and stay permanently signed in.
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> > And how secure is that?
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> 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.
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> > I'm sensing that you're dug into this position and are now in Defensive • Mode.
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> 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.
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
(I prefer trying a quick brute force attack to try to guess it rather than
enforcing "must be more than 6 letters must contain at least one number" kind
of rules which actually cut into the password space.
> 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.
Thank you. I feel better now.
++lar
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| (...) 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. (...) No, not dug in, just a bit skeptical and need to think changes through carefully. No (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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