On 30 Nov 2010 07:42:00 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Clark Morris >> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:27 AM >> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >> Subject: Re: A New Threat for password hacking >> >> On 29 Nov 2010 08:43:23 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >> >>> snip >> >> If you have a product that insists on special characters in passwords, >> this can be a major pain given the variability of code points for many >> of the characters. Also how many passwords do you have to remember? >> >> Clark Morris > >Personally? About 5: (1) Work LAN; (2) Work mainframe; (3) Work "benefits" web >site (outsourced); (4) home LAN; (4) Amazon; (5) home/ISP email. Those are the >ones I use most of the time. I have a USB flash drive which is ext4 formatted >and uses a GPT partition table which contains an encrypted file which contains >my other passwords (i.e. just confuses Windows users). And I have a backup of >that encrypted file at home in a couple of places. Hope I never forget >__that__ password! Not that I am likely to do so. And it is, for all intents >and purposes, unguessable by anyone. No, I won't say more on that or why I >would say it. Of course, it could be cracked by somebody like Abbie Sciuto >(and maybe the NSA or FBI) in just a few minutes <grin>. Who is Abbie Sciuto?
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