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| (...) Have you forgotten your password? If so, write me an email from your primary address and I can now ask the server to generate a new one for you and send it directly to you via e-mail. You could think of it as a temporary new one which you (...) (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Of course not -- because that's patently false. 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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Wouldn't it be easier to e-mail the forgotten password to the e-mail address your members input upon registration? That e-mail could be intercepted but I don't think a lot of people would go into that kind of trouble to be able to look at (...) (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G1HDIu.J6p@lugnet.com... (...) other (...) I (...) So ... are you going to tell us what is going to happen nine months from now or just leave us hanging? IMHO, the password checker and system (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I was thinking more from the perspective of what you are going to create that will have a span of 9 months and not what might happen on the internet outside of LUGNET in 9 months. This still doesn't explain why you have a sophisticated (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) most (...) Me too. I've now forgotten all 3 of my passwords, including the two new ones that I worked very hard to come up with memorable phrases that I could remember and that passed that (*&)&@%&$# insanely strict password check. Anything I (...) (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, 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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Imagine it is all you *can* do, as Todd didn't actually do the typing, he said he got lists of words readily available from the 'net that are made available (by whom?) to aid in building stronger password checkers. (and also to aid in building (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.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, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Do all ATMs have a video recorder (or live person in the case of a point of sale ATM, though at least in many stores, you are also on video)? (...) An interesting question: would the maximum loss policies exist in Libertopia? Please follow-up (...) (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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