English is a very big dictionary. AND I didn't say to use three nouns, but rather three words, I just happened to use nouns for this example. It could have been Mongoose Tokyo Nicolette.
For my original example, it shows it has 110 bits of entropy using only 26 set (non-capitalized) and 134 bits using three Capital Letters. My suggestion is that you go back and look at what entropy means regarding password strength. Granted, if you could guess three random words and run brute force against that password hash, it doesn't seem likely that you'd catch the password in any meaningful length of time. Then again, password hacking MY personal password would be much easier with the Hammer Technique http://xkcd.com/538/
Ultimately, no password is secure if you can't remember it without writing it down. And re-using the same password for all the systems you access is the worst possible choice one can make. The question then becomes, how important is the information being secured by passwords? Do you want to secure your pet's health records with 156 bit entropy random/pseudo random passwords, or will 1234abcd work just fine?
So, how many 100 bit entropy passwords can you remember without resorting to something like LastPass or writing them down?
I used to do this, until I couldn't remember if that was a 1 or l or L, or @ or A or a or 4. Or was that $, S or s.... And it is really hard to tell if that was a 0 or O or o.
But I never forgot the three words I used. I have a mental picture of a Mongoose fixing a car with a screwdriver (not my real password)
This is only a current problem with BitCoin. The moment Bitcoin becomes "stable" is the moment when enough people use it for enough things that it is "common" rather than uncommon. Right now, if enough people want to "sell" (exchange) bitcoins for Cash, the price drops. If more people want to "buy" bitcoins with cash, the price goes up. This all changes when bitcoin becomes the go-to currency, rather than the cash (Dollars, Euros etc). And that, is when the fun begins.
It isn't unregulated economic systems that do this, it is lawless societies that do this. One of the biggest reasons I oppose more regulation is that it actually is promoting more lawlessness. The Haves have all the tools available to them, and the have nots don't have any. Start a business today, with all the regulations and controls in place, a normal person simply can't. You need licenses, and more licenses, permits and more permits. You need to comply with all sorts of unneeded over tortuous regulations, and often have to visit a myriad of different governmental regulatory agencies and have them "grant" permission for you to operate.
AND the moment you make some small innocent error, it can all be stripped from you in a heartbeat. WHY? Because we "must do something, this is something, therefore we must do it" kneejerk reaction to someone doing something bad.
This creates a system that only seems lawful, but is really evil and lawless. Those that can afford to navigate the "legal system" can not only thrive, but can also prevent any meaningful competition. Control of currency is one of the greatest tools used by Totalitarians. This is why, both the Tea Party and OWS people hate the FED.
Money laundering is much much easier than people actually think. It just takes time. There are plenty of "cash" businesses out there that are used for laundering money. If you're into high dollar illegal activities, it is just part of the cost of doing business. In fact, that is partially how Las Vegas came into being, money laundering for the mob.
THIS is why Crypto Currency is important. What business is it of the Feds to decide what is legitimate and what isn't with MY money? Yeah, people do bad stuff with cash. The whole "OMG we must do something, this is something, we must do it" is what gets us here. Having to justify how we spend money, and if you happen to spend too much that gets reported.
And the sad thing is, people have figure out a million ways around the limit, and it doesn't actually stop anything, other than legitimate use.
Anonymous currency makes CERTAIN forms of corruption easier. It makes OTHER forms harder.
IF you want to help make BTC more anonymous(not completely), you can have it strip transactions older than a certain period of time (e.g. one month) While leaving the last X transactions intact (X being sufficiently long chain). Of course, it would still be possible to wash BTC enough that you can get around these limits, and the history will be enough to identify some users/uses of BTC.
You cannot stop bad people from doing bad things with tools, what you can do is make it harder for them, while leaving the rest of the normal (good) users alone.
On passwords, what was once thought to be good password security is no longer true. The length of a password matters more than diversity and given the right instructions, can be much easier to remember than complex passwords.
My current suggestion for passwords is this: Pick three (or more) random words. mongoose, screwdriver, automobile. Now you have a password you can remember, but is very hard for a computer to "crack" and you only have to remember three things, as opposed to memorizing eight (or more) things that don't make any sense.
And, to make it unique for each System you log in to, add in the name: Amazon Mongoose Screwdriver Automobile, or Ebay or whatever.
"Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! (and employment)"
One thing that Liberals fail to note, is that increasingly all the jobs they champion with "unions", are the ones slowly being replaced by Robots, that work cheaper and longer without whining. And when all the jobs are automated, they will wonder what happened.
Right now, the only real job is to know something a computer sucks at knowing, or where robots don't function well. Both these lists are getting smaller daily.
So, go get your PhD in "Liberal Studies" with a "Feminism" minor, and then go find a job at Burger King while complaining it isn't a living wage. You've produced a useless product and now you're complaining it cannot earn a decent living. Econ 101.
Well, considering that the FDA told the Walnut Marketing Association, that any marketing of "health benefits" regarding walnuts would classify them as "drugs" and thus they are not allowed to even promote Proven benefits of Walnuts, this makes perfect sense. They are, after all, protecting us from the boogie man of health.
We need a government approved, ObamaCare Certified doctor our plan approves of, in order to tell us anything medical. "We are from the Government, we are here to help."
Of course they are a bunch of un-elected bureaucrats. THAT is why we keep voting for (R) and (D)s who keep giving us more Bureaucracy, never less. And queue the Republicrat response of "Somalia is a Libertarian dream" in 3 - 2 - 1.... (And by the same measure North Korea is a Bureaucrat dream!)
Get out, meet people, lose weight (i did, a lot of it) and see things you normally don't see. Every new place you go, you see things you probably would have missed.
I'm a "for everything" plan. Not picking winners and losers but rather, providing the means to having cheap plentiful Energy, so that we can build and make things (requires energy) and move it to where it is needed, quickly. Efficiency comes when things are scarce OR when there is much competition.
1) Government sets a "carbon tax" 2) Government starts to rake in tons of cash, builds out additional programs and things like costly High Speed Rail systems that lose tons of money each year, using the funds to pay for it all. 3) Carbon Usage gets drastically cut by being too damn expensive 4) Government starts to run out of money as the supply from Carbon taxes quickly disappears 5) Tax Payers face rate hikes and more confiscations and things like Police, Fire and Schools suffer drastic cuts, and Liberals say that anyone opposing their new Tax Plan "wants to throw grandma off a cliff".
A+ is a great example of a Certification that means less now than ever before.Nobody really fixes computers any more. The cost (Labor & Parts) to fix a broken computer is often more than simply buying a replacement, especially on lower end equipment. In days of old, we used to have to mess with DIP switches and jumpers to configure hardware to function properly, now we just stick a PCI card or load some drivers and be done with it.
Let us take, for example, a four year old computer, that has a Power supply go bad. Okay replacement power supply from Local repair shop will cost $20 (Approx) and installation another $30. That's $50 for repairs by a A+ certified GeekSquad type technician. The actual value of a 4 year old computer, that was $500 new is... about $50. AND you still have a 4 year old computer.
I tell my customers that hardware is the least expensive part of computers today. The data (Pictures, music, videos, documents) are worth way more than the hardware, and to not risk losing those by upgrading / repairing computers that are already experiencing problems.
Also certifications are only worth it if you keep them current. Typically (IMHO), the cost (time / money) for keeping them current (my Novel Certifications are worthless) is not worth the increase in wages / salary they procure. I'd rather spend my time and money on Books regarding the topics I am currently working on. My value is in my ability to learn new stuff.
Any company that requires current "certifications" for people who have been working years in the field deserves exactly what they get. I haven't been certified since my Novel days, and haven't even been interested since. IF people doubt my qualifications based on what I have been doing for the past 20 years, fine by me, I don't want to work for them.
The exception is people who are outside hires for tech support, who want to toss out "We only employ certified people". Okay, that's great, but again, you get exactly what you should expect, marginal competency and "by the book" work. Do not expect creative solutions to impossible problems.
One of the things I've learned over the years, is that an MBA does nothing except prove that a worker has jumped through a set of hoops, like a good doggie. This is useful information to a degree, meaning the person is trainable and given a set of goals is likely to attain them.
What a MBA does not prove is how successful they will be running any business, that comes from experience, which is the best education I've ever had. But my degree means nothing to me today, simply because it is not relevant at all any longer, except those that look there first. Elon Musk is correct, The Degree is mostly useless except getting in the front door.
And here we have the biggest problem with our current set of tax codes. AND yet, there is no outcry from the public that taxes are nearly impossible for the average person to complete without spending money, and even then, you're likely to miss something or another.
THIS is not normal. There is NO two ways around this, our tax laws suck, but no politician is willing to take them on, because of all the special deductions and credits carved out for various sub groups that will cause outrage and panic among those groups, keeping the tax codes complicated and incoherent.
I have a simple question, what benefit to society does a complicated tax code give us? It is time to abolish it.
You cannot be sure of that hypothesis since we have no idea what the result otherwise would be, except your faith. Your life is not over, and we don't know the consequences of your choices will be, and I'm 100% sure you'll never know. However, blaming Jesus for what his followers do that was explicitly or implicitly against his teachings is hardly his fault.
I suspect that you don't care about false equivalences, but here is a challenge for you, name one thing Jesus said or did that cause any harm to anyone, magical or otherwise?
I consider it this way. My Smartphone has more power and RAM and runs more apps than my "High end" desktop PC from 13 years ago (Circa 2000), and in some ways has better features than the PC from 13 years ago. It isn't a "full desktop" so what, it is a computer!!
Political violence doesn't work to actually implement social change.
Education by Liberals equals stupidity. American Revolution (to name one). Civil War (to name another). If there is such a thing as a "good war", then the ones fought for liberty are the ones worth fighting, lest you end up a slave to a tyrant simply because you believe the lie "Resistance is Futile".
Unless of course you are looking for an individual (or small group) who pulls off a coup of some sort. In which case, you'd be equally wrong. The Assassination of MLK Jr, while it (helped) affected change, it wasn't the change the assassin was aiming for. It did however, help galvanize the movement and add people to the cause.
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English is a very big dictionary. AND I didn't say to use three nouns, but rather three words, I just happened to use nouns for this example. It could have been Mongoose Tokyo Nicolette.
http://rumkin.com/tools/password/passchk.php
For my original example, it shows it has 110 bits of entropy using only 26 set (non-capitalized) and 134 bits using three Capital Letters. My suggestion is that you go back and look at what entropy means regarding password strength. Granted, if you could guess three random words and run brute force against that password hash, it doesn't seem likely that you'd catch the password in any meaningful length of time. Then again, password hacking MY personal password would be much easier with the Hammer Technique http://xkcd.com/538/
Ultimately, no password is secure if you can't remember it without writing it down. And re-using the same password for all the systems you access is the worst possible choice one can make. The question then becomes, how important is the information being secured by passwords? Do you want to secure your pet's health records with 156 bit entropy random/pseudo random passwords, or will 1234abcd work just fine?
So, how many 100 bit entropy passwords can you remember without resorting to something like LastPass or writing them down?
I'll pay your way to North Korea. Seems legit way to support your false equivalences.
I used to do this, until I couldn't remember if that was a 1 or l or L, or @ or A or a or 4. Or was that $, S or s .... And it is really hard to tell if that was a 0 or O or o.
But I never forgot the three words I used. I have a mental picture of a Mongoose fixing a car with a screwdriver (not my real password)
This is only a current problem with BitCoin. The moment Bitcoin becomes "stable" is the moment when enough people use it for enough things that it is "common" rather than uncommon. Right now, if enough people want to "sell" (exchange) bitcoins for Cash, the price drops. If more people want to "buy" bitcoins with cash, the price goes up. This all changes when bitcoin becomes the go-to currency, rather than the cash (Dollars, Euros etc). And that, is when the fun begins.
It isn't unregulated economic systems that do this, it is lawless societies that do this. One of the biggest reasons I oppose more regulation is that it actually is promoting more lawlessness. The Haves have all the tools available to them, and the have nots don't have any. Start a business today, with all the regulations and controls in place, a normal person simply can't. You need licenses, and more licenses, permits and more permits. You need to comply with all sorts of unneeded over tortuous regulations, and often have to visit a myriad of different governmental regulatory agencies and have them "grant" permission for you to operate.
AND the moment you make some small innocent error, it can all be stripped from you in a heartbeat. WHY? Because we "must do something, this is something, therefore we must do it" kneejerk reaction to someone doing something bad.
This creates a system that only seems lawful, but is really evil and lawless. Those that can afford to navigate the "legal system" can not only thrive, but can also prevent any meaningful competition. Control of currency is one of the greatest tools used by Totalitarians. This is why, both the Tea Party and OWS people hate the FED.
Money laundering is much much easier than people actually think. It just takes time. There are plenty of "cash" businesses out there that are used for laundering money. If you're into high dollar illegal activities, it is just part of the cost of doing business. In fact, that is partially how Las Vegas came into being, money laundering for the mob.
THIS is why Crypto Currency is important. What business is it of the Feds to decide what is legitimate and what isn't with MY money? Yeah, people do bad stuff with cash. The whole "OMG we must do something, this is something, we must do it" is what gets us here. Having to justify how we spend money, and if you happen to spend too much that gets reported.
And the sad thing is, people have figure out a million ways around the limit, and it doesn't actually stop anything, other than legitimate use.
Anonymous currency makes CERTAIN forms of corruption easier. It makes OTHER forms harder.
IF you want to help make BTC more anonymous(not completely), you can have it strip transactions older than a certain period of time (e.g. one month) While leaving the last X transactions intact (X being sufficiently long chain). Of course, it would still be possible to wash BTC enough that you can get around these limits, and the history will be enough to identify some users/uses of BTC.
You cannot stop bad people from doing bad things with tools, what you can do is make it harder for them, while leaving the rest of the normal (good) users alone.
Hey, one out of three. Wait, that one is debatable so ... I have no chance :-(
On passwords, what was once thought to be good password security is no longer true. The length of a password matters more than diversity and given the right instructions, can be much easier to remember than complex passwords.
My current suggestion for passwords is this: Pick three (or more) random words. mongoose, screwdriver, automobile. Now you have a password you can remember, but is very hard for a computer to "crack" and you only have to remember three things, as opposed to memorizing eight (or more) things that don't make any sense.
And, to make it unique for each System you log in to, add in the name: Amazon Mongoose Screwdriver Automobile, or Ebay or whatever.
By the same token, you must love North Korea where government decides everything, including how much you can eat.
Easy to make false equivalences. And given the choice of Somalia and North Korea, I'll take Somalia. And you'd take which?
"Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! (and employment)"
One thing that Liberals fail to note, is that increasingly all the jobs they champion with "unions", are the ones slowly being replaced by Robots, that work cheaper and longer without whining. And when all the jobs are automated, they will wonder what happened.
Right now, the only real job is to know something a computer sucks at knowing, or where robots don't function well. Both these lists are getting smaller daily.
So, go get your PhD in "Liberal Studies" with a "Feminism" minor, and then go find a job at Burger King while complaining it isn't a living wage. You've produced a useless product and now you're complaining it cannot earn a decent living. Econ 101.
Well, considering that the FDA told the Walnut Marketing Association, that any marketing of "health benefits" regarding walnuts would classify them as "drugs" and thus they are not allowed to even promote Proven benefits of Walnuts, this makes perfect sense. They are, after all, protecting us from the boogie man of health.
We need a government approved, ObamaCare Certified doctor our plan approves of, in order to tell us anything medical. "We are from the Government, we are here to help."
Of course they are a bunch of un-elected bureaucrats. THAT is why we keep voting for (R) and (D)s who keep giving us more Bureaucracy, never less. And queue the Republicrat response of "Somalia is a Libertarian dream" in 3 - 2 - 1 .... (And by the same measure North Korea is a Bureaucrat dream!)
Get out, meet people, lose weight (i did, a lot of it) and see things you normally don't see. Every new place you go, you see things you probably would have missed.
I'm a "for everything" plan. Not picking winners and losers but rather, providing the means to having cheap plentiful Energy, so that we can build and make things (requires energy) and move it to where it is needed, quickly. Efficiency comes when things are scarce OR when there is much competition.
So, this is how it will go.
1) Government sets a "carbon tax"
2) Government starts to rake in tons of cash, builds out additional programs and things like costly High Speed Rail systems that lose tons of money each year, using the funds to pay for it all.
3) Carbon Usage gets drastically cut by being too damn expensive
4) Government starts to run out of money as the supply from Carbon taxes quickly disappears
5) Tax Payers face rate hikes and more confiscations and things like Police, Fire and Schools suffer drastic cuts, and Liberals say that anyone opposing their new Tax Plan "wants to throw grandma off a cliff".
The cloud is fine and dandy until Microsoft Azure is unreachable for several hours ... again ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/21/azure_blips_offline_again/
A+ is a great example of a Certification that means less now than ever before.Nobody really fixes computers any more. The cost (Labor & Parts) to fix a broken computer is often more than simply buying a replacement, especially on lower end equipment. In days of old, we used to have to mess with DIP switches and jumpers to configure hardware to function properly, now we just stick a PCI card or load some drivers and be done with it.
Let us take, for example, a four year old computer, that has a Power supply go bad. Okay replacement power supply from Local repair shop will cost $20 (Approx) and installation another $30. That's $50 for repairs by a A+ certified GeekSquad type technician. The actual value of a 4 year old computer, that was $500 new is ... about $50. AND you still have a 4 year old computer.
I tell my customers that hardware is the least expensive part of computers today. The data (Pictures, music, videos, documents) are worth way more than the hardware, and to not risk losing those by upgrading / repairing computers that are already experiencing problems.
Also certifications are only worth it if you keep them current. Typically (IMHO), the cost (time / money) for keeping them current (my Novel Certifications are worthless) is not worth the increase in wages / salary they procure. I'd rather spend my time and money on Books regarding the topics I am currently working on. My value is in my ability to learn new stuff.
Any company that requires current "certifications" for people who have been working years in the field deserves exactly what they get. I haven't been certified since my Novel days, and haven't even been interested since. IF people doubt my qualifications based on what I have been doing for the past 20 years, fine by me, I don't want to work for them.
The exception is people who are outside hires for tech support, who want to toss out "We only employ certified people". Okay, that's great, but again, you get exactly what you should expect, marginal competency and "by the book" work. Do not expect creative solutions to impossible problems.
One of the things I've learned over the years, is that an MBA does nothing except prove that a worker has jumped through a set of hoops, like a good doggie. This is useful information to a degree, meaning the person is trainable and given a set of goals is likely to attain them.
What a MBA does not prove is how successful they will be running any business, that comes from experience, which is the best education I've ever had. But my degree means nothing to me today, simply because it is not relevant at all any longer, except those that look there first. Elon Musk is correct, The Degree is mostly useless except getting in the front door.
You forget what Liberals call "rights" are their right to take from you to support whatever cause their heart bleeds for.
And here we have the biggest problem with our current set of tax codes. AND yet, there is no outcry from the public that taxes are nearly impossible for the average person to complete without spending money, and even then, you're likely to miss something or another.
THIS is not normal. There is NO two ways around this, our tax laws suck, but no politician is willing to take them on, because of all the special deductions and credits carved out for various sub groups that will cause outrage and panic among those groups, keeping the tax codes complicated and incoherent.
I have a simple question, what benefit to society does a complicated tax code give us? It is time to abolish it.
You cannot be sure of that hypothesis since we have no idea what the result otherwise would be, except your faith. Your life is not over, and we don't know the consequences of your choices will be, and I'm 100% sure you'll never know. However, blaming Jesus for what his followers do that was explicitly or implicitly against his teachings is hardly his fault.
I suspect that you don't care about false equivalences, but here is a challenge for you, name one thing Jesus said or did that cause any harm to anyone, magical or otherwise?
I consider it this way. My Smartphone has more power and RAM and runs more apps than my "High end" desktop PC from 13 years ago (Circa 2000), and in some ways has better features than the PC from 13 years ago. It isn't a "full desktop" so what, it is a computer!!
Political violence doesn't work to actually implement social change.
Education by Liberals equals stupidity. American Revolution (to name one). Civil War (to name another). If there is such a thing as a "good war", then the ones fought for liberty are the ones worth fighting, lest you end up a slave to a tyrant simply because you believe the lie "Resistance is Futile".
Unless of course you are looking for an individual (or small group) who pulls off a coup of some sort. In which case, you'd be equally wrong. The Assassination of MLK Jr, while it (helped) affected change, it wasn't the change the assassin was aiming for. It did however, help galvanize the movement and add people to the cause.