> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Clark Morris > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: A New Threat for password hacking > > On 29 Nov 2010 08:43:23 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > > >I would tend to agree with ' they violate our standards and > are sharing ids'. Security is not priority one in some other > countries. (At least not OUR security). > > Security is not that high a priority in many organizations where the > mantra is get the job done whatever it takes. If the security > department is too restrictive and viewed as being a major roadblock, > the other departments will get creative. > > If you have a product that insists on special characters in passwords, > this can be a major pain given the variability of code points for many > of the characters. Also how many passwords do you have to remember? > > Clark Morris
Personally? About 5: (1) Work LAN; (2) Work mainframe; (3) Work "benefits" web site (outsourced); (4) home LAN; (4) Amazon; (5) home/ISP email. Those are the ones I use most of the time. I have a USB flash drive which is ext4 formatted and uses a GPT partition table which contains an encrypted file which contains my other passwords (i.e. just confuses Windows users). And I have a backup of that encrypted file at home in a couple of places. Hope I never forget __that__ password! Not that I am likely to do so. And it is, for all intents and purposes, unguessable by anyone. No, I won't say more on that or why I would say it. Of course, it could be cracked by somebody like Abbie Sciuto (and maybe the NSA or FBI) in just a few minutes <grin>. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
