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Re: LUGNET Memberships
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:56:03 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> Uhhh, if you chronically have trouble remembering good passwords, you should
> be writing them down and putting them somewhere *safe* that you trust -- like
> your dresser drawer at home, or a jewelry case, or somewhere else safe behind
> lock and key that you already trust. Then, if you should happen to forget
> your passwords, you can look them up and refresh your memory. There's nothing
> inherently insecure about written-down passwords. And something like a PayPal
> password (if you can't remember it), write that down encoded somehow, to foil
> burglars.
The insecurity of written down passwords is when they are put someplace
accessible and obvious. This is done sufficiently often by people that
it is often treated as an inherent problem with writing down passwords.
One trick I have used to encode numeric passwords like PINs for my
wallet is to hide them in a phone number which is written down with
other phone numbers. Of course you need to make sure it isn't a phone
number which is an obvious choice for a password (and if you don't have
that many phone numbers in your wallet, is bad, since a good place to
start to guess someone's PIN is any phone numbers you find in the
wallet).
For the exposure risk Lugnet provides, probably keeping a written
password in your wallet is safe enough, especially if you keep it not
easily tieable to Lugnet.
Frank
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| (...) Yup! Like on a yellow stickie note on a monitor? So I've been told. :-) But that little insecurity is more secure overall than having a system full of bad pw's that any script kiddie anywhere in the world can crack while sleeping. BTW, if (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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