Timo Schultz's WinPT is an all-in-one encryption frontend which sits in the system tray and does EVERYTHING. Even safely wipes data from the drive. And for convenience, he has an Outlook Express plugin (which works!) and a Windows Explorer plugin (which I don't need and thus haven't tried yet).
From the news story: "Even with such a system, people would still be susceptible to "shoulder surfing," in which someone watches a computer user type in their password."
Users would have to be fools to "click" their password unless they are positively alone in the room. The current standard at least has masked text on screen, and the order of keys on the keyboard is VERY difficult to track even when the user is moderately good at typing.
Let's not forget that in the case of the new photo passwords, with 50% of users you would only have to know the "Lenny Bruce sequence" in their Playboy passphotos: T'n'A
I am not going to dwell on the fact that Gabe and the boys didn't actually make a game that was not HL in a new box for a long, long time (and NEVER so far produced a good online game) - yet are currently integrating the most annoying features of all online shenanigans into a client which we will have to use (transparently, mind you) once they DO publish a game. That would be low.
But the steam driven ploy is going to fail.
Even though the past is a long string of successes for schemes allowing users to communicate directly with people who use their brain as a symbolic battlefield in which corporations win cash and the people win the ticking pounding urge to get a shotgun and kill, kill, kill - the result is not to be generalized onto this case. As the world's premiere gaming psychologist, I can tell that: 1. gamers LOVE colorful boxes 2. downloads are for free stuff
Now, if they would only throw one of those Comet-cursor thingies in their Steam engine, it would be so cool.
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...only most people are too blind to notice.
Timo Schultz's WinPT is an all-in-one encryption frontend which sits in the system tray and does EVERYTHING. Even safely wipes data from the drive. And for convenience, he has an Outlook Express plugin (which works!) and a Windows Explorer plugin (which I don't need and thus haven't tried yet).
Give it a try and see...
http://www.winpt.org
From the news story: "Even with such a system, people would still be susceptible to "shoulder surfing," in which someone watches a computer user type in their password."
Users would have to be fools to "click" their password unless they are positively alone in the room. The current standard at least has masked text on screen, and the order of keys on the keyboard is VERY difficult to track even when the user is moderately good at typing.
Let's not forget that in the case of the new photo passwords, with 50% of users you would only have to know the "Lenny Bruce sequence" in their Playboy passphotos: T'n'A
~zecg.
I am not going to dwell on the fact that Gabe and the boys didn't actually make a game that was not HL in a new box for a long, long time (and NEVER so far produced a good online game) - yet are currently integrating the most annoying features of all online shenanigans into a client which we will have to use (transparently, mind you) once they DO publish a game. That would be low.
But the steam driven ploy is going to fail.
Even though the past is a long string of successes for schemes allowing users to communicate directly with people who use their brain as a symbolic battlefield in which corporations win cash and the people win the ticking pounding urge to get a shotgun and kill, kill, kill - the result is not to be generalized onto this case.
As the world's premiere gaming psychologist, I can tell that:
1. gamers LOVE colorful boxes
2. downloads are for free stuff
Now, if they would only throw one of those Comet-cursor thingies in their Steam engine, it would be so cool.
~zecg.