[Ham-Computers] Passwords

[Dan Violette]

I did get emailed one of my usernames and passwords asking for money to not
spread it around.  It was an older one that I was only using on 3-4 benign
sites (QRZ, LinkedIn, and a couple others).  If I had used that everywhere I
am sure they could have tried Facebook, Chase Bank, BofA, etc. and
eventually got a hit.  I somewhat agree with you (did that too until about
10 years ago)  but too risky nowadays.

Dan KI6X

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Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Passwords

"Your scheme could explode the moment a site gets hacked..."

Then, they'd have the password for that ONE site.  If the site got hacked,
the password itself would be moot, simple, or complex... They wouldn't know
what else it applies to anyway, so, big whoop.

"or someone figures it out."

32 years, and counting...  Perhaps someone did once, and I never heard about
it, and it was never an issue.  Also refer again to: "They wouldn't know
what else it applies to anyway, so, big whoop."

I didn't pull this notion out of my butt, I came up with it after years of
"hacking" (since 1979, and NOT to be confused with theft, or vandalism.  If
you put gas in your car without referring to the factory manual, you
"hacked" it, yet somehow that's not the same thing, 'cuz it's not scary
sounding).

"Hackers" look for certain things.  My "scheme" isn't part of how they, or
the system works, which is why it has thwarted the system, in its entirety,
since day-one.

So far my biggest, and most flawless "hack" to date!

Kurt
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