Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

[Glenn English <ghe@slsware.com>]

On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> On 7/31/2012 10:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote:
> 
>>    If a password is any place but in your head I question its
>> security 
> 
> Agreed.

Dud'n work, guys. I fell off my bike a couple years ago and completely 
lost all my passwords. Rebuilding my servers (and laptops and iPads) was 
no fun at all. Write 'em down and put the paper in a safe-deposit box.

>>    Take a name and a number out of your childhood that you'll
>> remember forever like your first pet and the first phone number
>> you memorized, scrambled together.

That's pretty much what mine were: first letters and punctuation of 
a well known line from a song or poem. When your brain is hit real hard 
by a sharp rock, they're gone. 

-- 
Glenn English
hand-wrapped from my Apple Mail