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Re: New feature: Article rating
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 23:42:55 GMT
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:23:11 GMT, Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> 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? [...]
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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
> unconditionally guarantee it.
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> (A side chuckle: In some future world where retinal scans are commonplace,
> you're kinda limited there to two passwords. :-)
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> --Todd
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
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Rob Farver - mailto:rfarver@rcn.com
http://www.farver.com/lego/
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/rfarver
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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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