Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-08-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 31 iul 12, 17:57:38, Bob Proulx wrote: > > The problem is how many of those can you keep straight in your head? > How many web sites and systems all need one of those unique passwords? > And you aren't reusing those passwords on multiple unrelated sites are > you? > > As with all things xk

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Glenn English
On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Fortunately for most of us there is the support group of family.They > know these things and would help me with them. I was 67 years old when it happened, and the family I have left is 1000 miles away. Fortunately, my sister flew here to take

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Glenn English wrote: > > Dud'n work, guys. I fell off my bike a couple years ago and completely > > lost all my passwords. Rebuilding my servers (and laptops and iPads) was > > no fun at all. Write 'em down and put the paper in a safe-deposit box. > > If you can't remember

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread lina
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Glenn English wrote: > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 7/31/2012 10:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote: >> >>>If a password is any place but in your head I question its >>> security >> >> Agreed. > > Dud'n work, guys. I fell off my bike a coup

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/31/2012 7:03 PM, Glenn English wrote: > Dud'n work, guys. I fell off my bike a couple years ago and completely > lost all my passwords. Rebuilding my servers (and laptops and iPads) was > no fun at all. Write 'em down and put the paper in a safe-deposit box. If you can't remember the passw

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread lina
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/31/2012 10:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote: > >> If a password is any place but in your head I question its >> security > > Agreed. > >> Take a name and a number out of your childhood that you'll >> remember forever like your first pet

Re: [OT] secure passwords

2012-07-31 Thread John Hasler
Bob writes: > If you have some scheme of encoding the site into the password using > some algorithm unique and secure to you then great. > I generate truly random passwords and write them down. So do I. The problem is that the _general public_ is constantly being told "Never, ever, ever write do

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Glenn English
On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/31/2012 10:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote: > >>If a password is any place but in your head I question its >> security > > Agreed. Dud'n work, guys. I fell off my bike a couple years ago and completely lost all my passwords. Rebuilding m

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike McClain wrote: > If a password is any place but in your head I question its > security but here's a scheme for secure passwords that are not > subject to dictionary lookups and are easy to remember. > > Take a name and a number out of your childhood that you'll > remember forever lik

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/31/2012 10:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote: > If a password is any place but in your head I question its > security Agreed. > Take a name and a number out of your childhood that you'll > remember forever like your first pet and the first phone number > you memorized, scrambled together.

[OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Mike McClain
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 08:31:56PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 06:15:26PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:54:14 -0500 > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > Hello John, > > > > >Brad Rogers writes: > > >> Yeah, on a Post-It note. Stuck to the monitor.