pfarrell;297861 Wrote: > > > Protecting your music library does not require serious security. > Indeed. But it's nice to be able to come up with a password that can both be remembered (there are a lot of passwords on post-its) and that is at least not totally susceptible to dictionary attack. I'm a contractor (mostly software, but I end up doing IT sometimes as well), Sometimes I get asked about passwords. Sometimes they're on a post-it on a user's monitor, or the password is "password" or "Secret" and I figure I'd ought to at least say something. Up to now, I've been telling folks about "book codes" (i.e. find a phrase you can remember) and then interject some numbers and/or punctuation. So for instance, even without the punctuation you get things like tpwshbnhv (Twain) or iwtbotiwtwot (Dickens). While we're going way off topic, IMHO it's worth reading what Clay Shirky has to say about downloading, the RIAA and encryption 'The RIAA Succeeds Where the Cypherpunks Failed' (http://www.shirky.com/writings/riaa_encryption.html). It -does- have a connection to music (sort-of).
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