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(...) Excellent. I do foresee one possible area that could be a problem (but I could be overreacting) - Auction/Sale/Trade announcements could all end up with a 75 rating (the initial 50 and then the poster gives it a 100). This could give a false (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It'll probably get counter-balanced by people marking some of the more annoying ones down. Anyway, it's up to each individual reader whether or not they wish to pay attention to the ratings. (...) Do you sign in often from a public place such (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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(...) I think people should be able to be fully signed in without machine-generated passwords - otherwise it is discriminating against those who use a lot of different machines. What about using the double-login idea with two distinct user-definable (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hrmmm .... or maybe article scoring could be turned off for the market groups where listings are posted? Probably not, though, since those groups often contain discussion in addition to listings. (...) Dunno about Ed, but I read LUGNET from (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That would potentially shift some of the blame if something bad did happen to someone, but could it prevent blame or suspicions from occurring in the first place? It seems to me that such wording or agreement would not actually lessen the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Excellent point. Thanks. You've just demonstrated that a machine generated password does absolutely nothing to ensure (as in 100%) that a password is actually unique to a particular system. It makes it more probable, but doesn't (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What I used to do and still do in some cases where I think people might be trying to get my passwords is to use a core word (I choose one from about a dozen Latin or Russian words, sometimes spelled, in the case of Russian, the way I like to (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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(...) That future world may not be as far off as you might think. I have a friend that works for a company that is working on inexpensive retina scanners for NT logon among other things. Rob - Rob Farver - mailto:rfarver@rcn.com (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Is it true that those things cause blindness after 20 years use? Richard (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) annoying (...) Good point. (...) I sign in from various workstations in various training rooms in 2 different buildings. (...) Until you added Article Rating, the only function a member could perform by logging in was to edit their profile (if (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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(...) The argument here is that if you get too restrictive (requiring one non alphanumeric, for example) you cut the set of passwords down far enough that you make brute force attack easier! I tend to favor trying a few quick checks on the pw to see (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) can't someone already post in your name without knowing your password? I believe all you need to be able to post is your name and email address... heh, going to test that in a sec. btw, as far as password choosing and forcing - well, I believe (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This could be a polite request to people, but as Mike Stanley pointed out yesterday, there's technically no way to ensure it 100%. (Which doesn't diminish its desirability, only its effectiveness somewhat.) (...) How would you use your member (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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(...) Thank you. And I do agree with you that there is value in making the password hard to crack. Value to the user and value to Lugnet. Now we're just down to figuring out how best to achieve both and what the priority is... ++Lar (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What I meant was that if you stated that use of your LUGNET password (as descrived above) in any other online application would automatically relieve LUGNET of any responsibility of hacking to appications other than LUGNET. (...) How about the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Right. But, while that is an excellent polite request to make to people, as Mike Stanley pointed out yesterday, there's no way to ensure that people will follow that suggestion -- in either direction. But it's still a good thing to politely (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I hope you'll forgive me if I'm skeptical of that statement. I haven't studied human factors of cryptography in depth but my BS was in mathematics. I know what you're saying, and why it might be true given a certain set of assumptions, but how (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Personally, I'd love some tips on how to pick good passwords that are easy to remember. I'll admit to using poor passwords, and re-using them. These days, one seems to need so many passwords that I can't see how you can really work well if you (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, although if someone has enough familiarity with you (and access to you) to figure out what sites you freqent, under what names/aliases/IDs, and crack (or attempt to crack) enough of your passwords to establish a pattern, you've got bigger (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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