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Re: PW validation (was: Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:23:12 GMT
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This is an interesting subject. However, I only know one person who keeps a
written note of his password/ATM number etc. The only reason he does this is
because he is dyslexic. Despite that, I'm sure that as more and more web
services now ask for passwords, I suppose people will write down passwords,
use the same one all the time or develop some other strategy.
Scott A
"Larry Pieniazek" <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message
news:FtHxnL.8r2@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
>
> > I take it as a given that most people
>
> but not all. I don't.
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> > will still write a password down
> > somewhere no matter how easy or difficult it is for them to remember (if • they
> > feel that password is important) just in case they might forget it. Even • if
> > most people don't, it certainly doesn't alarm me one bit knowing that • some
> > people would -- and do.
> >
> > Maybe they write it down backwards, or shifted by one letter, or • letter-case
> > flopped,
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> I doubt most people that write down passwords apply any of these cyphers • to
> them but I am just speculating on this particular point.
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> > or even raw, but it's still safer for them and for LUGNET if they
> > keep a written record of it in a safe place (such as their wallet or • purse
> > or bureau at home) than if they have a weak password which could be • guessed
> > at from any of 100 million nodes on the Internet.
>
> Fascinating... can you provide a reference for this assertion, or is it • just
> conjecture? Keeping ATM passwords in one's wallet or purse is a • particularly
> bad practice, for example. But then, we're talking about something rather
> different than money, aren't we?
>
> ++Lar
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