Re: Off-topic: Gmail Grrrr.
On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 23:13 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 12/28/13, Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 02:43:11PM +0400, Reco wrote:
> >> And storing banking information outside someone's head is wrong on so
> >> many levels that I don't even know where to start ;)
> >
> > If you have a nasty accident and lose parts of your memory is a damn
> > good reason, and that is just as a start! :)
>
> I've thought for some years that a small inexpensive palm-size
> computer, with a truecrypt/tcplay volume, which contains a text file
> containing passwords.
And how do you remember the passphrase for the encryption after the roof
tile has fallen on your head?
Even my idea with the not encrypted address book, a "written down
aide-memoire in an address book on an USB stick or similar might help",
has it's drawback. The user likely will forget to unplug the USB stick
or unplugs the USB stick, get sidetracked by a telephone call and
instead of putting down the stick on the PC tower, the user put down the
stick on the telephone table and won't remember it.
You are aware that users reply to phishing mails, seemingly not the
users who had a nasty accident and need to store the data by a browser
profile ;).
You can not expect the same habits by all users. A paperhanger, hanging
wallpapers 5 days a week, for 8 hours a day, does internalise
procedures, movements. A paperhanger can't expect that you follow
procedures, movements the same way as he does, if you hang papers every
few years. You can't expect that a user acts as a power-user does,
especially not when having a brain damage, being old etc..
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