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| (...) Probably the latter. But maybe (tying threads together) we could have Todd print a bar code that we swiped with our :CueCats to verify it was us (along with a rather easier password that we had to remember) ?? Personally I think one should (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| I can access them, but everything except news and guide just say "Hello world! This is ####.lugnet.com!", but maybe it is supposed to do that? --Tobias (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Not if you only disable loggin in as that user from that ip. (...) I think a minimum of 6 characters is a good limit. It's the character diversity that is causeing problems. Also, you could make failed attempts take a few extra seconds to (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) The swipe-through ATMs are probably a lot cheaper, both to install and maintain. They don't have all the mechanical parts needed to accept and return the card (ooo, reversing motor), so they shouldn't break down as often. Of course, not having (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| I've been on a few BBSes, quite a while back now, and believe me, some of the passwords that I came up with were quite alphanumeric, and rather random. A hacker's chance of guessing a random, or even semi-random, password is therefore theoretically (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G1F3z5.5Gs@lugnet.com... (...) Well, some ISPs around my area at least go over a satellite link. If someone tries to trace the route, they will most often see me as coming from the satellite (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) 36^6 is about equal to 2^31. Maybe it was typical 5-character pw's that resulted in 24-26 bits of true information...I don't remember for sure, it was many months ago. OK, yes, <calculator poking> 36^5 is about equal to 2^26. Also, IIRC, I (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| It works fine from Sweden;) I included some info to you, maybe you can find it usefull? 8 164 ms 144 ms 176 ms bar1-serial6-1-1-0.N...nyr.cw.net [206.24.200.157] 9 168 ms 136 ms 170 ms acr2-loopback.NewYorknyr.cw.net [206.24.194.62] 10 175 ms 178 ms (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Hi there! Excuse me if i am totally lost here... Is it not so that a 6 letter password containing letters from A to Z and 0 to 9, can have 36^6 different combinations and contains 48 bits in a unique order? A binary value containing 0 or 1 in 8 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| Someone in the Washington, D.C. area is reporting having trouble accessing things on img.lugnet.com and news.lugnet.com...possibly some kind of DNS confusion somewhere. (img.lugnet.com is where images from the sets database are served.) Anyone else (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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