Now there's your first mistake. She may not know how to do it, but she may have access to someone who does. Let's get back to first principles people: There is a world of knowledge accessible to anyone who wants to go looking for it. NEVER assume the potential for compromise is limited to (your assessment of) an individual's capability.
My US$0.5175 worth. -----Original Message----- From: gminick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 18 December 2001 05:20 To: security-basics Subject: Re: Passwords On Paper On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:41:19PM +0200, you (George Barnett) wrote: > While remembering passwords is one thing and for some people very simple, it > is important to keep a "backup" in the form of passwords written down in a > little black book in a safe somewhere that is accesible in case you get hit > by a truck or something else unexpected happens to you. It wouldn't be my problem then :) My ex-girlfriend knows all my passwords, so I think that there's always a way to log in into my servers/mailboxes/whatever without me (but she's totally unfamiliar with computers at all and she don't know how to do it :)) -- [ Wojtek gminick Walczak ][ http://hacker.pl/gminick/ ] [ gminick (at) hacker.pl ][ gminick (at) klub.chip.pl ]
