On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 23:13 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 12/28/13, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 02:43:11PM +0400, Reco wrote: > >> And storing banking information outside someone's head is wrong on so > >> many levels that I don't even know where to start ;) > > > > If you have a nasty accident and lose parts of your memory is a damn > > good reason, and that is just as a start! :) > > I've thought for some years that a small inexpensive palm-size > computer, with a truecrypt/tcplay volume, which contains a text file > containing passwords.
And how do you remember the passphrase for the encryption after the roof tile has fallen on your head? Even my idea with the not encrypted address book, a "written down aide-memoire in an address book on an USB stick or similar might help", has it's drawback. The user likely will forget to unplug the USB stick or unplugs the USB stick, get sidetracked by a telephone call and instead of putting down the stick on the PC tower, the user put down the stick on the telephone table and won't remember it. You are aware that users reply to phishing mails, seemingly not the users who had a nasty accident and need to store the data by a browser profile ;). You can not expect the same habits by all users. A paperhanger, hanging wallpapers 5 days a week, for 8 hours a day, does internalise procedures, movements. A paperhanger can't expect that you follow procedures, movements the same way as he does, if you hang papers every few years. You can't expect that a user acts as a power-user does, especially not when having a brain damage, being old etc.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1388245864.1062.42.camel@archlinux
