On 12/5/13 12:08 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Steve Smith <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>wrote:
150, 240, 900 !?
?!What!? are you guys addicted to? Including PINs for
bank-cards (not used online) I can't estimate over a dozen or two
myself.
Exactly! But you do have > 100 and you know it
I really don't...
How many on-line gifts? How many forums, even for trivial use? How
many mail lists? How many bank, credit card, paypal logins? Amazon?
Google? Moocs? Travel related? Airlines? NetFlix/Hulu/iTunes? Gmail?
Dropbox? GitHub? Clothing? Shopping in general? NYTimes and other news
sources? LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, G+, ...
I use the G constellation with one password (one of it's features)... I
don't Yahoo. I don't Mooc, I use only Southwest Airlines (and while I
have a "rapid rewards number" I don't have a password/account)... I have
a Mac account which covers iTunes/apps/stuff... my wife has the Netflix
account, no Hulu, no Facebewk, recently re-linked in... use Google Drive
(see above) . I don't shop,and I don't read anything with a paywall ($6
NYT Sunday old fashioned newsprint at Tesuque Village Market most
weeks... need it for firestarter in my woodstoves)...
I could go on but dozens. I seriously, Seriously doubt it.
OK maybe hundreds over decades, but ... current?
Not so fast, mister! They're still there and very hackable.
no, some services/servers are long gone, but yes, I could lose my login
on some of the "throwaways" but I've lost nothing of value to me...
usually a psuedonymous ID and one of my Hashwords. If someone gathered
all my abandoned psuedonymic throwaways and Hashwords and cracked them
they might begin to get a hint of my hashWord algorithm. Remember,
until 5 years ago I lived behind firewalls and proxies and close
scrutiny... I just didn't sign up for much.
Admittedly, I have probably cranked through a similar number of
"throwaways" where I've signed up for something (because that is
the only way to sample/test) and then let the login die or go
fallow (and my hashword) with it. But hundreds? Really? I'm
worried about you guys! They have groups and 12 step programs for
things like this!
Login die? You sure? And indeed, how many folks can "delete" an
account? Most don't have an obvious way do do so.
Yes, not all dead, deprecated in the sense that I haven't logged since
the first 1,2, 3 times to realize that said service wasn't very useful
to me... and again... psuedonym (my favorites are word scrambles of
"Owen Densmore" or "Doug Roberts" ;)
As for mnemonics or mental-hash-generators (hashwords?)... my
decades of high security environments where writing my password
down anywhere (including or especially electronically) or sharing
it with anyone (e.g. speaking it aloud) was a felony or low
treason or something, I just can't stand to see a password in
clear text... it makes me cringe... so a whole spreadsheet of my
family jewels... I just couldn't...
I only wish there were a 2-factor system for the masses that isn't
spoofable (the ones that use your Mac address of your device are
better than nothing but not unspoofable by far).
- Steve
I am so worried about you guy who don't know just how many logins you
have! :
grin... touche... I will maybe inventory, but you can bet I won't write
them (passwords) down...
- Steve
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