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Re: The concern with security
@John: Even then, we were being warned to not use "password," "123456," and our first names -- and even now, we still do! Marvelous.
I had to Google "Fatal Toe Syndrome" while reading your comment, incidentally.
JohnBarnes
4/24/2016 2:03:04 PM
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Re: The concern with security
@joe, LOL. I just made up fatal toe syndrome, but when you said you googled it, naturally I did too, and discovered there's something called blue toe syndrome that is sometimes associated with fatality. (It's bad circulation associated with strokes and heart attacks, so nobody else has to go look).
Slightly more seriously, a good webscraping program that I could write in R (and I'm really just learning R, not at all proficient yet) could probably gin up "the 10,000 most likely passwords for" any given person, with a probably better than 95% chance that their password was on the list.
I'm wondering if someday there will be a market for an input/output system so that when you go online, your computer automatically consistently changes personal data on every unsecured link (e.g. always alters your birthday to something else that's plus or minus two years from your real one, changes your high school graduation date to match, moves your high school one district over, makes your mother's maiden name different (while still leaving it a last name) etc. etc. etc., and then re-alters as things come back in. As one co-worker said to me once, "Everyone wants to be private and everyone wants to talk about their stuff."
dlr5288
4/25/2016 8:10:23 PM
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Re: The concern with security
Very true, and good point!
Hackers will never stop attempting to get in. I think, at least for me, that's what's so scary. At any moment someone can get into a phone, computer, etc. It's something that should always be on the top of people's minds.
dlr5288
4/25/2016 8:18:25 PM
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Re: The concern with security
It's crazy how things change!
Now with security everyone has to be so careful when they're putting their things out online or on a device. Even when I'm shopping online I'm so leary about putting my card information out there. It's crazy how easy it is to gain access into people's computers, tablets, etc.
faryl
4/27/2016 4:17:03 PM
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Re: The concern with security
Sneakers is another classic!
If I remember correctly, Steve Wozniack & Steve Jobs both used to do phone "phreaking" (with a box that imitated dial tones to trick pay phones) back in the early years. So - aside from cheesy movies - maybe a couple of good things developed from security holes!
dlr5288
4/27/2016 8:40:29 PM
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Re: The concern with security
Haha good point!
I feel like Verizon is always going to be working on security, as they should. I don't know how long it will take for security to become unbreakable, but it's slowly getting there!
faryl
4/27/2016 8:51:00 PM
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Re: The concern with security
I just saw this comment and am absolutely delighted to know this is an option!
I'm going to be going on a 3 hour (each way) drive in a couple of weeks - I'm going to be sure to look into getting one of these.
Thank you!
Re: The concern with security
@John: I'm having trouble finding it now, but I remember playing a game a couple years back online wherein you had to guess the most popular passwords. As you might expect, most of them were variations on the word "password," number sequences, popular names, and popular profanities.
Re: The concern with security
Silly password story that sets out how much things have changed:
When I was in college I had a night job for a while at a Proctor and Gamble sales office, operating a modem (yes, they once needed operators) to download (we didn't call it that yet) the official copies of sales reports to a mainframe, and then running report-writer programs to print a paper copy of a giant report that I would then cut apart, distributing the proper pieces to the proper desks. This required that I have a password.
I did not know that the manager kept a printed list of everyone's password on his desk (not even in a drawer) to make sure we were all following the rules for passwords.
So I got called in for an early morning reprimand for use of an inappropriate password, which, it being P&G, was because my password was ... IvorySoapSinks.
When I used to relate that story among my academic and artist buds it was about the bizarre uptightness of the bizworld. Nowadays it's a tale of how weird things used to be: a printed list of everyone's password on the manager's desk.
Re: The concern with security
@faryl: I'm not so young that I don't know what phreaking is.
But I'm not so old that I'm convinced I can tell you any stories about it, statute-of-limitations-wise. ;)
jk!
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