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Re: Password safes &c. (was: Dear Linkedin,)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 15:43:20 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "Lyndon Nerenberg" <lyndon () orthanc ca>
The only way to ensure your personal passwords are never compromised is to kill yourself after destroying all physical copies of those passwords. While ultimately secure, you won't be able to do your daily online banking.
No, but on the positive side, the issue will be less pressing to you. User-side authentication security is a multi-dimensional problem, and it is probably not theoretically possible to optimize any given instance for all of the possible vectors simultaneously. Different individuals need to make their own threat estimate, and decide what approach they want to take to it. Of course, 95% of the affected audience wouldn't know what the phrase "threat estimate" meant, even if you threatened them. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
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