On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Ken Dibble <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the case of passwords: Do you really think it's safer to keep your > passwords on somebody's server that is potentially connected to every person > who has access to a computer on the internet, than to just keep them on a > piece of paper folded up in your wallet? Wallets are "portable" too. Yup, I do. And I've given it a lot of thought. 507 passwords are unique, and when the site allows, 23 characters of upper, lower, numeric and special. I don't have to distinguish zero from Oh or a scribbled 6 from a lowercase g. I log on from a half-dozen machines with at least 4 different OSes, all supported. They're synchronized, easily to regularly update, and encrypted on my local machine store as well as "in the cloud" so the exploit is going to steal a fully-encrypted blob that will take them several decades to decrypt. I'm not worried. My "paper folded in the wallet" was an entire index card box and quite a bit to manage. > When are people going to stop this magical thinking about computers? Yeah, that's not gonna happen. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4s3r5234nXCo-as9Zv7MX=mctuybctp3bdwxbbwmbc...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
