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| bio | website | not-implemented.com |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 8 months |
| seen | 2 days ago | |
| stats | profile views | 3 |
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Mar 12 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Feb 21 |
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Does disabling right click have any impact on security? @Shadur: Well banking websites notoriously do stupid things.. It often happens that your password must be a "PIN" which must be 4 numbers, no letters, no longer and no shorter /shrug |
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Jan 31 |
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Generating random passwords by clicking randomly on the keyboard? @Thomas: well, taking what I said very literally you are right, but you know what I meant ;) Let's try like this: length increases password security much more than the security decrease caused by having the password easy to remember, meaning that long easy-to-remember passwords are more secure than short difficult-to-remember passwords |
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Jan 30 |
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Generating random passwords by clicking randomly on the keyboard? Actually, in practice computer generated passwords are more random than people smashing their keyboards as demonstrated by the study linked in Dinu Smădu's answer.. of course seeding the random generator with user input gives one of the best randomness possible, but at this point I think we are going a bit off topic since the answer doesn't ask this |
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Jan 30 |
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Generating random passwords by clicking randomly on the keyboard? This is not an answer per-se so I'll post as a comment, but I think you are doing it wrong. The difficulty of guessing a password increases much more rapidly with length than with randomness. The password "Passwords that are phrases are easy to remember, and very secure -- people should use them more" is infinitely harder to guess than "s1DRyYbCDgjXE" and much much easier to memorize. So don't focus on having random passwords, focus on having long passwords. The same goes with salts. |
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Jan 26 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Jan 15 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jan 15 |
awarded | Editor |
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Jan 15 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jan 15 |
revised |
Why Say IP Addresses Are Harmless? deleted 2 characters in body |
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Jan 15 |
answered | Why Say IP Addresses Are Harmless? |
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Aug 13 |
awarded | Critic |
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Jun 29 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Jun 29 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Jun 29 |
accepted | How do hacking groups register domains remaining anonymous? |
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Jun 25 |
awarded | Student |
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Jun 25 |
asked | How do hacking groups register domains remaining anonymous? |
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Sep 26 |
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What are a few good lists of threats to use to kick-off conversations with others about what worries them? To be fair this list seems quite subjective and arbitrary, and not very useful in practice. I (and you too) can come up with as many fancy names as we want to try to characterize the behavior of "agents" but what's the point? |
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Sep 25 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Sep 25 |
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Why do law-abiding citizens need strong security? This is an aside but how do you know if you are doing something illegal? Without even counting treaties, city laws, county laws, state laws and tribal laws, the United States Code alone (ie, federal law) contains over 27,000 pages in 50 titles (of which 4 more have been proposed). The Congressional Research Service stated that it's unable to count the current number of federal crimes. |
