Given that Dropbox has previously considered passwords to be optional, I'm not convinced that Dropbox engineers adds much credibility to this research.
*should* is the key word in this sentence. 10.2.6 wouldn't even install properly. It seems that the update merely exposed an existing hardware issue for me. I tried to run the Apple Hardware Test and had a memory read error befor the AHT even booted. Took out the RAM that came with the computer and it booted. But not before making some errors on the hard drive that don't go away when I repair the disk with Disk Utility from the install CD. Why it takes a software update to expose the hardware problem is beyond me....
My 17 inch powerbook was rendered useless overnight. Upon rebooting, the video display renedered the grey screen of death. Hopefully, doing an 'archive and install' and going back to 10.2.6 will fix my woes... At least they are doing the responsible thing and pulling the plug on it.
My parents gave me the name Matthew Jones. It seems like a rather inconspicuous name, until you think of all the people you know who share my name. Here are a few of my stories...
My senior year in high school, my parents got a letter saying that I was being suspended for "lack of attendance." The thing was, I was actually attending school. There was a sophomore named Matt Jones and the school sent the letter to the wrong house.
While working at Intel, one of the five Matt Joneses there sent an e-mail to the rest of us explaining that a co-worker girlfriend of one of the us (not me) had called his house over the weekend and was rather suprised to hear Mrs. Matt Jones answer the phone...
I just wish that debt collectors would get the right Matt Jones. I get these calls about twice a year. And each debt collector requires me to tell them my story on about three different phone calls before they remove my number.
Just last week, a former employer of an apparently not-so-great Matt Jones called me up demanding for my address so he could send me my W-2. It took about 15 minutes to explain that I was a customer of the company, not an employee.
In college, the basketball star's name was Matt Jones. I used to love it when professors would ask me about the game the night before. See, I'm a 5'9" Polish Italian. The other Matt Jones was 6'5" and had a very African heritage.
I've considered posting a blog for other Matt Joneses of the world to share their stories. Anybody interested?
I use the Dvorak layout on my keyboard, and that is a pretty good password protection scheme in an of itself! I'll use easy to remember words, like linuxrules, and convert them to the qwerty layout. So, linuxrules would be pglfbofpd;
Plus, it freaks people out to start typing at the machine, so that is a pretty good protection mechanism!
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Given that Dropbox has previously considered passwords to be optional, I'm not convinced that Dropbox engineers adds much credibility to this research.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/...
And how are they hashing the passwords if they are allowing for typos?
*should* is the key word in this sentence. 10.2.6 wouldn't even install properly. It seems that the update merely exposed an existing hardware issue for me. I tried to run the Apple Hardware Test and had a memory read error befor the AHT even booted. Took out the RAM that came with the computer and it booted. But not before making some errors on the hard drive that don't go away when I repair the disk with Disk Utility from the install CD. Why it takes a software update to expose the hardware problem is beyond me....
My 17 inch powerbook was rendered useless overnight. Upon rebooting, the video display renedered the grey screen of death. Hopefully, doing an 'archive and install' and going back to 10.2.6 will fix my woes... At least they are doing the responsible thing and pulling the plug on it.
- My senior year in high school, my parents got a letter saying that I was being suspended for "lack of attendance." The thing was, I was actually attending school. There was a sophomore named Matt Jones and the school sent the letter to the wrong house.
- While working at Intel, one of the five Matt Joneses there sent an e-mail to the rest of us explaining that a co-worker girlfriend of one of the us (not me) had called his house over the weekend and was rather suprised to hear Mrs. Matt Jones answer the phone...
- I just wish that debt collectors would get the right Matt Jones. I get these calls about twice a year. And each debt collector requires me to tell them my story on about three different phone calls before they remove my number.
- Just last week, a former employer of an apparently not-so-great Matt Jones called me up demanding for my address so he could send me my W-2. It took about 15 minutes to explain that I was a customer of the company, not an employee.
- In college, the basketball star's name was Matt Jones. I used to love it when professors would ask me about the game the night before. See, I'm a 5'9" Polish Italian. The other Matt Jones was 6'5" and had a very African heritage.
I've considered posting a blog for other Matt Joneses of the world to share their stories. Anybody interested?Check out freegeek.org. They recycle old computers into useable ones with a variety of hardware... They have a distro called freekbox.
I use the Dvorak layout on my keyboard, and that is a pretty good password protection scheme in an of itself! I'll use easy to remember words, like linuxrules, and convert them to the qwerty layout. So, linuxrules would be pglfbofpd; Plus, it freaks people out to start typing at the machine, so that is a pretty good protection mechanism!