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| Personally, I'd love some tips on how to pick good passwords that are easy to remember. I'll admit to using poor passwords, and re-using them. These days, one seems to need so many passwords that I can't see how you can really work well if you (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Well, in that LUGNET should "accomodate" the ability to set your own password (something _every_ online store/site I use does) yes. And I doubt Larry is losing his cookies due to "user error". Saving your password in a cookie is nice, but its (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I hope you'll forgive me if I'm skeptical of that statement. I haven't studied human factors of cryptography in depth but my BS was in mathematics. I know what you're saying, and why it might be true given a certain set of assumptions, but how (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) What I meant was that if you stated that use of your LUGNET password (as descrived above) in any other online application would automatically relieve LUGNET of any responsibility of hacking to appications other than LUGNET. (...) How about the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) It'll probably get counter-balanced by people marking some of the more annoying ones down. Anyway, it's up to each individual reader whether or not they wish to pay attention to the ratings. (...) Do you sign in often from a public place such (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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| (...) Thank you. And I do agree with you that there is value in making the password hard to crack. Value to the user and value to Lugnet. Now we're just down to figuring out how best to achieve both and what the priority is... ++Lar (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) It would be a total coincidence, yes, and BTW you shouldn't be giving away details like that about your password. You just made it 2,050 times easier for someone to brute-force crack your password. :-( --Todd (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) annoying (...) Good point. (...) I sign in from various workstations in various training rooms in 2 different buildings. (...) Until you added Article Rating, the only function a member could perform by logging in was to edit their profile (if (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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| (...) I think people should be able to be fully signed in without machine-generated passwords - otherwise it is discriminating against those who use a lot of different machines. What about using the double-login idea with two distinct user-definable (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I only use my at-home machine and I'm always logged in. (I have no idea what my password is) So, do I really need some other confirmation code to simply add a group to my rcv-by-email list? Wait! don't answer that. I'll assume it's a "yes." (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) No. I just couldn't think of a place to put it. I don't write on my laptop screen and the plastic around the edge is black. No other place is likely to be always near me. I forgot to put it into my top secret password file. (which is used (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Yes, although if someone has enough familiarity with you (and access to you) to figure out what sites you freqent, under what names/aliases/IDs, and crack (or attempt to crack) enough of your passwords to establish a pattern, you've got bigger (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) But I don't _want_ to, and to suggest that as an alternative to carrying around a machine-generated password seems a little boneheaded. I don't _want_ to leave myself logged into Lugnet just like I don't _want_ to leave myself logged into (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Can you name a major website with the sort of long-term goals that LUGNET has that sides with your "setting your own password isn't important" opinion? (...) Well, did you read the rest of that paragraph? eCircles isn't a retailer - it is a (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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| (...) Mode. (...) OK, make me confirm my confirm (each time warning the non geeky that maybe, just maybe, they ought to use the one the were given) when I go to pick my password, then subject it to a few quick checks to see if it was a good choice (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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