Tag: passwords
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Kent's Super-Simple, Excellent Password Advice
This excellent advice is simple, in fact its excellence depends upon being simple. Complicated is the enemy of security. If you follow this advice you will be among a very rare elite in how secure your passwords will be. Four parts: 1. Write down your passwords. On real paper, with a real pen or pencil, […]
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Touchscreen Password Idea
Passwords are a problem, and lots of people say they are doomed, but I have seen no good alternatives, so I sometimes think about making them better. Touchscreens are important yet really hard to enter good passwords. Also, I would like to do more of a “key exchange” when entering my password. I use different […]
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Associated Press and Passwords
Dear AP, Today you tweeted that there were two explosions in the White House and Obama was injured. It seems you didn’t intend to do so. Someone else broke into your Twitter account. In other words, someone else had your password. Jeeze, it isn’t that complicated: Make up a password, with some random stuff in […]
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Sony Passwords: Now do you believe you should not reuse passwords on different sites?
Sony has been cracked. Multiple times. It seems Sony employs nerds who know nothing about security. Now, sonypictures.com has had a million username and passwords (and other information: DoB, e-mail) scooped up and made public. Are you on that list? The Playstation breaks would have been even more users. It hasn’t been posted public, are […]