On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 18:35 +1030, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 19 December 2013, Greg Woods sent: > > it is very risky to use the same password at multiple locations, even > > if it is an easy-to-remember but hard-to-guess password. > > It definitely is, and I've seen the results, even on the more benign > side of things.
The eventual point of this is that there is really no such thing as a hard-to-guess and easy-to-remember password. It's one thing to have a password like "purplepolkadotsonmydog", but another to remember whether that password was for Amazon, Newegg, Kaiser, <list of 100 other web sites>. I can and do use a very small number of hard-to-guess, easy-to-remember passwords for places where using the password safe is not practical (e.g. the initial login to my personal machines, the password for the safe, the password for Dropbox). But for anyone who does a lot of stuff online, and therefore interacts with a large number of sites that use a password for authentication, you need a password safe. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
