Allegedly, on or about 20 December 2013, Greg Woods sent: > 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.
It gets worse if you use multiple computers. It's a nightmare trying to do something that's accessible on all, and secure. Whether that be letting applications remember passwords, and I'm severely pissed with browsers that can't remember passwords because some *utterly* *unimportant* site thinks they should block your browser from doing so (though I don't object to a bank site doing that), or having a special password safe application. I can remember but a few passwords off the top of my head. Smartarse passwords can bite you on the bum. I had to phone up a service and tell them a password for access. Previously, their system had given me a lot of grief, so I had set a password that stated what I thought of them. ;-) -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- 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
