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Re: New feature: Article rating
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:23:11 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes:
> Still don't like it. And what's to prevent people from memorizing that
> password and using it on other systems? [...]
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
unconditionally guarantee it.
(A side chuckle: In some future world where retinal scans are commonplace,
you're kinda limited there to two passwords. :-)
--Todd
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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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| (...) 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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