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| (...) Totally agreed. Machine generated, unchangeable passwords get written down. That compromises them. If this system is so important that security is paramount over ease of use (which I have a hard time seeing, it doesn't control human lives or (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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| (...) Looks like that "good taste" module in the email gateway is working great guys! Sorta like those logon screens that get slower & slower the more times you get the password wrong....8?) ROSCO (23 years ago, 28-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Two questions: (1) I'd like to update my membership info, but it's been so long I've forgotten how. How do I do that? (2) I forgot my password, what do I do? I didn't see any links to help pages, but maybe I'm just blind or something. thanks, (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Hey, Dan, just wait a while. It took me a few months before I got the email with payment instructions. When you get that, and pay, your password should come pretty quick. (Mine came only 2 days after I payed) I guess the admins are busy... But I'll (...) (22 years ago, 6-Feb-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Posting Cookie sent with Membership Login?
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| (...) You must be a mind reader... I was just about to post this today! Please, Todd, I want this too. I' be willing to memorize that password on the member card if this was possible - then I could finally post in the school library, right now I can (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Yeah, but the point is we ARE right. You're not concerned about it, Todd may not be concerned about it, but the market backs us up. Can you change your password at Amazon.com? BN.com? Any other major online retailer you care to name? How about (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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| | Re: I'm back...
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| (...) One problem with any kind of opt-in security or member-only security, is that it does not protect the *community*. While spoofing someone's id does damage to that one person, it also damages the entire community. And if anyone can be spoofed, (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Say, does it let you choose which cookies (by name or somesuch) are transported and which ones aren't? One of the things the member-profile cookie will have, besides user-id and password, is the location -- home/work/etc. -- for things like (...) (26 years ago, 21-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) So what do I do when I login at a publicly accessible machine in a lab? What does anyone in a college environment do? People who are lucky enough to have a spouse who reads (and has a membership) at LUGNET but uses the same computer? To be so (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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| (...) are there some measure in place? yes, some. Is it possible to block out crawlers? not really. As long as anyone can point their browser (or newsreader) and connect to LUGNET, without requiring a password, the data there can be harvested. We (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LUGNET Memberships
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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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| (...) 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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| (...) I've pointed this out a while ago... anyone can post as anyone else... and there's no real way of stopping it without requireing you be logged in (if you're a member) or some sort of password. And that's only via the web interface - I'm not (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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