On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 3:50 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > De : Lee > À : Pierre-Elliott Bécue > Cc : Debian Users ML <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Date : 20 mars 2024 20:40:52 > Objet : Re: Root password strength > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 1:47 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > >> > >> Brad Rogers wrote on 20/03/2024 at 18:39:30+0100: > >>> On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:09:31 +0100 > >>> Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello Pierre-Elliott, > >>> > >>>> Most of the time, writing down a password is a very bad idea. > >>> > >>> Not in your own home. And in any event, it depends where one keeps that > >>> 'written down' password. > >>> > >>> And if it *does* become an issue at home, you've got bigger, more > >>> immediate, problems to deal with; Of the intruder variety. > >> > >> You have a rather bad cybersecurity approach. And you did not do a > >> proper risk assessment. > > > > The OP said > > - My password is easy because i am not afraid of direct physical > > access to the computer. > > > > That seems like a good enough risk assessment to me, but please > > explain what you think is "a proper risk assessment." > > > > Thanks, > > Lee > > As stated elsewhere, I am done with this thread. Therefore I do not intend to > reply here. > > If you still want an answer I am happy to reply privately.
Yes, I would like an answer. I've got passwords written down at home, so I started thinking about it and I'm much more concerned about other papers I have at home like bank statements etc. that could do much more damage to me if they ended up in the wrong hands than a password to an AP Thanks Lee
