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Too Many Passwords
LK3 writes "A survey of 1700 technology end users in the United States released today reveals some interesting findings about password management habits. 'The results suggest that having to juggle multiple passwords causes users to compensate with risky security techniques and creates a drain on productivity by taxing the resources of IT support centers.' Further, corporate requirements of frequent password replacement further exacerbates the toll on human memory. Is the solution a master password, with all of the potential problems that represents, or biometrics, or are we stuck with post-it notes and a call to the help desk?"
I have a very very clever comment to add to that thread, but I forgot my password :(
My voice is my passport.
(maybe "bank" for my bank for example) which gives me a password of: ?pE94$vw
So could you please elaborate on this and also tell us how you remember other pieces of information, say, like, I don't know, just for example, your PIN, account number, and which bank you use? Just curious...
I'd answer, but then it'll give insight into my password preferences, and then I'll get c00tz0rs from t3h l33t h4x0r2!!1!eleventyone etc.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
To steal an old post to an old comment -- that's a very interesting perl program...could you post the output instead of the well-written perl code, though?
is there really a serious threat of people hax0ring other workers' accounts and taking their online sexual harassment training for them?
Funny you should ask... I found the web-based Sexual Harassment training a stupid waste of time and energy. I tried to get it stopped, but management wouldn't listen. So, I wrote a script that pulled everyone's username from LDAP and completed the training for them on the first day it was available. Everyone got a "thank you" email and nobody wasted any time (except me - but then I spend my day reading slashdot).
The previous comment is purposely vague and generalized, but all of the facts are completely true.
No-one seemed to have mentioned that the pass-phrase to decrypt everything in the world in the movie "Sneakers" was "Too Many Secrets". I guess it could have been too obvious.
Are there any systems out there that let me login using my herpes?
But I kept getting access to John Holmes account. And they say those e-mail elargement ads never work! Ha!
(hopefully moderated for humor)
Damn, that's the funniest thing I've seen on Slashdot in quite some time.
(and I would be posting this under my own account if I could remember the password....)
...OneBigTextFile?
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
I hope you don't start with 31415926...
After all, I am strangely colored.
Augh! You bastard!
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
But now you've got bigger problems 'cause they're all running around playing grab-ass.
> koat-Dok-wepht
Sorry, I don't recognise that spell.
What next?
> Aw-Uk-Ted-uld-Ac
Sorry, I don't recognise that spell.
What next?
> Nod-wac-Ib-Vawl
You summon a grue.
The grue eats you.
Your score was 0.
You cast 1 spell.
Play again?
I have a password that will be easy for everyone to remember, foo.bar. Change it to that and everyone send me your id's and I'll make sure it's secure. That way everyone only ever has to have one password.
I worked for a company that had the most retarded rules for passwords. It had to have a number and a capital letter in it. The number had to between the first and last letters. We had multiple logins for various systems. We had a separate login for our computer, then a login to access our application suite, then a password for each application. And we had 7 or 8 of them. Needless to say, I kept the same password for as many of them as I could. My password was ih8Sprint. And then they made us change them every 60 days, so it became Ih8sprint, then iH8sprint, then Ih85print. You'd never guess who I worked for.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
I do something similar, but I use a simpler matrix:
So my bank password would map to "bank" and my slashdot password would map to "slashdot".
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
I've written an online service called www.muyseguro.com (which stands for "very safe" in spanish). Currently is in spanish only. It is a digital vault online for storing passwords, credit card info, and any other sensitive information that you may need to keep it safe and ubiquitous. The info you store there is encrypted with powerfull algorithms (128 bits encription), so it can be kept safe. Please, review it and let me know your thoughts about it.
.....I hope you don't start with 31415926......
No, he starts at the other end of PI.
All theory is gray