2013-02-02, 13:37 | Link #26141 | |
AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
Age: 74
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RSA has been working on algorithms that cut a password into pieces and store the pieces on separate servers. Most small-time web sites won't go to those extremes, but it ought to be de riguer for large-scale organizations like Facebook and Twitter which already maintain hundreds of servers.
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2013-02-02, 13:56 | Link #26142 | |
He Without a Title
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The land of tempura
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Bottom line is: no password is safe indefinitely. Pick good hard to crack ones, don't re-use them and change them regularly.
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2013-02-02, 14:26 | Link #26143 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2009
Location: classified
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Looks like its time to "batton down the hatches, to weather the worst" as it were. Thankfully my money is all tied up in actual assests (that make money) at the moment.
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2013-02-02, 14:56 | Link #26144 |
AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
Age: 74
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Magnitude 6.9 quake on Hokkaido
No tsunami threat and, so far, no reports of death or damage. USGS detailed report I wish more sites let you use longer passwords than the 8-15 characters that seems to be the norm. My wifi router uses a complete sentence. Considering that the passphrase is going to be hashed anyway, and the hash is likely to have a known fixed length, why restrict the length of passwords at all beyond a reasonable minimum length?
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2013-02-02, 15:05 | Link #26145 | |
Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 48
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2013-02-02, 15:56 | Link #26147 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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Username and password has to come hand-in-hand to throw the would-be hacker off his/her patience. A username using the initials of the person is more likely to be hacked due to sometimes that the password is gotten but the username is not known.
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2013-02-02, 16:07 | Link #26148 |
AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
Age: 74
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Well, "Luke,IamYourfather!" would be a bit more difficult since it contains a comma, an exclamation point, and mixed capitalization. It could have been "Obi-wanKenobi,your'reourOnlyHope!", too. Let's face it, Saintess, you were just lucky.
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2013-02-02, 16:13 | Link #26150 |
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
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SH: If you do away with the necessity of remembering username and password (meaning you'd have to write it down on something and have that thing with you and see to it it doesn't fall into the wrong hands), you can just use some kind of dongle. Most attempts to be clever fall into the trap described in that xkcd strip above.
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2013-02-02, 19:42 | Link #26156 |
Nyaaan~~
Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 41
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Not to be "that guy" .. but I'd point out that the "burden of proof" in civil vs. criminal suits are quite different.
In a criminal case, you must prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" In a civil suit, you must prove "based on the balance of probabilities"
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2013-02-02, 20:03 | Link #26157 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2009
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I had this in mind while reading, and yes, there is no guarantee he was actually a pawn of the government. It's just by preponderance of evidence that it seems so. More evidence points to him being affiliated than evidence saying he was not.
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2013-02-02, 21:06 | Link #26158 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
Join Date: Jan 2009
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Yeah...with passwords, length is key, since it's a machine guessing, not a human.
Sentences mashed together FTW Quote:
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2013-02-02, 21:29 | Link #26159 | |
AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
Age: 74
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Umm, no, not at all.
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This is as much a tribute to the stupidity of the developers who permit these passwords to be used as it is to the people who use them. You can see why using rainbow tables is an effective technique.
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