[Ham-Computers] Passwords

[jeff]

Your scheme could explode the moment a site gets hacked or someone 
figures it out.

Good luck regardless.

On 5/24/19 12:44 PM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> "What, if any, pgms have you guys used and what do you think of them?"
> 
> None, and here's why...
> 
> Everyone says you need a password, and it must contain certain 
> characters, or have a certain format to be secure.
> 
> Since 1987, I say HORSES--T!
> 
> And, here's why...
> 
> I have used the same password for almost everything since 1987.  I never 
> write it down, and because it's the same, never need to, since I've 
> never forgotten it.
> 
> How secure is it?  Perfectly flawless.
> 
> You see, nobody knows what it is, or what it goes to, so nobody can ever 
> guess what to do with it in any one of the trillions of potential 
> applications it may be used.
> 
> To a computer, a password is just a bunch of 1'a, and 0's, so making it 
> complex means absolutely nothing beyond a few moments of processing 
> time.  To a human, it could be any combination of anything ever known 
> for all of mankind.  Chances are, and the past 32 years have proven it, 
> they will never figure it out, ESPECIALLY if it's simple, since that's 
> "not secure", and therefore never looked for.
> 
> Aside from that.  Just write them down.
> 
> But, OH NO!  That's not secure!  Baloney.  It's as secure, if not more 
> so, than anything else.  Use one or two passwords at most, write them 
> down if you need to but, DON'T write down what they go to.  If anyone 
> can get to your sheet of paper, they can probably get to everything else 
> you have of value as well, so it would hardly matter, except they STILL 
> wouldn't know what the passwords mean, so in fact, more secure written 
> down, than most anything else you have, that can just be accessed, and 
> taken outright.
> 
> This doesn't mean I haven't used some sort of password program or 
> organizer.  I did, around late 1990.  It was more trouble than it was 
> worth, and made a simple task complex, involved, and reliant on 
> something else I had to worry about, and keep track of.
> 
> Kurt
> 
> 
> 
> 
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