On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:43:41 -0600 Shane Hathaway <[email protected]> wrote:
> Would you actually advise the public to write down their passwords, > knowing that people leave their wallets or purses unattended quite > frequently? Stealing a written password requires only a glance or a > camera. One way to deal with this problem is to scramble the password when writing it down. Unscrambling it will be invisible to an observer because the password entry widget will only show asterisks. As for people leaving their wallets or purses about, that is a bad habit. Many years ago I took a course in self defense from John Farnam (http://defense-training.com/). He pointed out that in an emergency, you will do what your habits tell you to do. So, e.g., I *always* lock the car, even at a small town in Wyoming. So when I do travel to the big city, I have the right habits. One should be in the habit of carrying keys, wallet, mobile phone and other highly critical items on one's person so that one is not in the habit of setting them down. Purses, "man bags", etc. are insecure. Fashion be damned. I'd rather be unfashionable than have those critical items stolen. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
