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(...) Is there a way to tell if a given IP address is a shared proxy server or not? If you disable login access as one user from a given IP address, then you effectively disable login access as _all_ users from that IP address, because it would be (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) They all work for me. 'Course, those are hosts, not subdomains. :) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Probably the latter. But maybe (tying threads together) we could have Todd print a bar code that we swiped with our :CueCats to verify it was us (along with a rather easier password that we had to remember) ?? Personally I think one should (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I can access them, but everything except news and guide just say "Hello world! This is ####.lugnet.com!", but maybe it is supposed to do that? --Tobias (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Not if you only disable loggin in as that user from that ip. (...) I think a minimum of 6 characters is a good limit. It's the character diversity that is causeing problems. Also, you could make failed attempts take a few extra seconds to (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The swipe-through ATMs are probably a lot cheaper, both to install and maintain. They don't have all the mechanical parts needed to accept and return the card (ooo, reversing motor), so they shouldn't break down as often. Of course, not having (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I've been on a few BBSes, quite a while back now, and believe me, some of the passwords that I came up with were quite alphanumeric, and rather random. A hacker's chance of guessing a random, or even semi-random, password is therefore theoretically (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G1F3z5.5Gs@lugnet.com... (...) Well, some ISPs around my area at least go over a satellite link. If someone tries to trace the route, they will most often see me as coming from the satellite (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 36^6 is about equal to 2^31. Maybe it was typical 5-character pw's that resulted in 24-26 bits of true information...I don't remember for sure, it was many months ago. OK, yes, <calculator poking> 36^5 is about equal to 2^26. Also, IIRC, I (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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It works fine from Sweden;) I included some info to you, maybe you can find it usefull? 8 164 ms 144 ms 176 ms bar1-serial6-1-1-0.N...nyr.cw.net [206.24.200.157] 9 168 ms 136 ms 170 ms acr2-loopback.NewYorknyr.cw.net [206.24.194.62] 10 175 ms 178 ms (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi there! Excuse me if i am totally lost here... Is it not so that a 6 letter password containing letters from A to Z and 0 to 9, can have 36^6 different combinations and contains 48 bits in a unique order? A binary value containing 0 or 1 in 8 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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Someone in the Washington, D.C. area is reporting having trouble accessing things on img.lugnet.com and news.lugnet.com...possibly some kind of DNS confusion somewhere. (img.lugnet.com is where images from the sets database are served.) Anyone else (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ouch. How easy is it for a thief to get your customer number? How many digits is your PIN? (...) natch. :) (...) Disable accounts on repeated fails and you make it trivial to DoS someone. Disable IP addresses and you lock out the innocent on (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Can we have the notes fields (both public and private) available on the "My Collection" page? I know I'd find it useful. (I currently maintain my own web page for my collection, which has things like last year's happy meal sets which don't (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) Actually, all they need to know is my customer number and a PIN to view my account records. I would consider my bank account records much more valuable than my LUGNET profile, no offense :) If the concern is script kiddies cracking accounts, (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yup. (...) Done! Thank you very much. Chris (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I started doing that about 2 weeks ago. It generates a password, sends an email with that password, then stores the encrypted password. The membership packet then contains a backup password. In the case of older members, or if someone deleted (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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