Daniel Shahaf wrote on Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 22:36:31 +0300: > Tangentially related, I couldn't give my password if I wanted to: I'm > a touch-typist, so I have my password wired in muscle memory, but > I never memorized the string value, so I wouldn't be able to give that > verbally or write it on paper --- I can only recover it by using > a qwerty keyboard. > > I'm not sure a borders police agent would appreciate this point. >
Thinking a little further... if I give them credentials without access to a qwerty, I'll probably be giving a password that's similar to but not equal to the real one. (Not intentionally; just a corollary the fact that I don't know my password's string value.) If the agents on-scene try to use that value, the most likely outcome is that it won't work. They could try a dictionary attack (basically, iterate potential passwords in order of their edit distance from the value I gave), which will either get them in or trigger a server-side account lock. Or they could give me a qwerty. Daniel > > Tzafrir Cohen wrote on Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 15:23:17 +0200: > > Off topic, but may be interesting: > > > > I heard recently that it is now legal for the security checks in the Ben > > Gurion airport to require that I show my mail account. > > > > Any existing software to automatically (and periodically) generate email > > on a mailbox which will appear to be used, so if anybody wants a casual > > look at my mailbox, I don't have to provide any real email credentials? > > > > -- > > Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is > > http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's > > tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best > > tzaf...@debian.org | | friend > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-il mailing list > > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
