On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:29:44PM -0500, you ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Is anyone familiar with a government or private study that surveyed the top 10
>places to store passwords that were written down on paper; e.g. under the keyboard,
>etc?
If you're searching for statistics you wouldn't find any.
Why ?
Because it's hard to do so.
Maybe it could be done by some questionnaire somewhere
on a well-known, popular web site.
Many of my friends simply forgot passwords (to emails
accounts etc), and when it is needed again they ask me to
crack their mailboxes :)
At my work password on all of the computers (even on the
clients computers) in BIOS(only) is "ENTER".
It isn't written anywhere, because it's simple and everybody
knows that password.
I've got a lot of passwords to protected sites in my mobile
phone. I do not need to remember them, because they aren't
so important to trash my head...
More important passwords for me is a list of logins and
passwords figuring only in my head.
I use them in various configurations, and I don't care
what confiration is right. When I need to log-in somewhere
I'm shooting as long as my config is wrong :>
It takes max 4 minutes, but generally I remember configurations.
All of these passwords are hard to crack by using some sort
of brute force etc.
Nowadays any hidden passwords aren't needed, all you need
to do is able an option in your m$ stuff to remember passwords ;P
ps. before i started work in my current job, all the passwords
were well known. My cheef have had always running notebook,
with a file hasla.txt(passwords.txt) on the c:\ with logins
and passwords to his mail/bank accounts etc.
Everybody were non interested in security/privacy.
After a few weeks I've got every possible password and
I showed them what they're doing bad, why they should
take care of their passwords, and now it looks more
secure indeed :)
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