Re: dropbox security situation

[John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>]

I wrote:
> Bruce Schneier recommends writing passwords down and then keeping the
> document containing them secure.

Andrei writes:
> Not everybody has the luxury of typing password without danger of
> someone taking a peek over the shoulder.

True but the admonition isn't "Don't write down passwords if you cannot
read them back securely".  It's "Never, ever, ever write down a password
no matter what!"  In the current environment bad passwords are a far
greater threat than that of friends or co-workers sneakily reading them.
Common sense applies.  Writing down passwords doesn't mean you have to
read them aloud while sitting at a hotel bar.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA