Daniel Carrera wrote:
Nicu Buculei wrote:
* Passwordsi agree with the other points, but i'm not sure about this. IIRC, an old rule was something like 'never write your password down'
You can't memorize good enough passwords any more, so don't
bother. For high-security Web sites such as banks, create long
random passwords and write them down.
And that's precisely the point. It's a wrong rule.
That's why I included this item. It is "common wisdom" to never write you password down, but this is a serious error in the modern world.
Only a serious error if you are already in a secure place.
Daniel, you make a grevious error yourself by assuming security violations only occur online. The fact is that most security violations do occur when an "insider" has obtained physical access to the system involved. Disgruntled employees, for example, will login at a victim's machine, using the victim's account, and logs show who to be the culprit? The victim, of course.
If the written down password is secure, then it's okay to write down. If you cannot keep others from viewing your written password, you shouldn't write it down... period!
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