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World Domination is Proceeding As Planned.
If you have a spare minute and are interested in the privacy issues, read this.
I find this bit particularly amusing:
“ … However, there are things that we know that they *are* doing. One of them is relevant to this particular case. That is work on cracking the passphrases that people use to protect their keys. The cryptography we’re using is itself uncrackable, but about 2/3 of the people in the world use a password (not even a passphrase) that directly relates to a pet or loved one. The order of frequency seems to be pets (living or dead), then children, then ex-loves. We know that at least one government has a password cracker that is based upon building a psychometric model of person who owns the key and constructing passphrases on that model. If you’re a Hollywood private eye and they seize your computer and find on it that you’re a basketball fan from your browser cache, then “Lak3rz 4 Teh w1n!” is actually a very bad passphrase. Don’t blame me when they find it in about two minutes…”
I am very bad at passwords as well. I have the same password for ages for almost every imaginable thing. Ok, at least it’s not Brix or some ex-love, but indeed refers to someone who died. I often thought of changing it but the again, it seems too much of a hassle. Plus I am sure I am not even faintly that interesting as to provoke someone to crack my psw;)).
What a naïveté, huh!
Inspiration: Matthai @#slo-tech
By Nana | August 20, 2006 | Topics: Tech |
August 20th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
That’s the advantage of having acute paranoia: my passwords are unguessable. In fact, they’re so good that I outwit myself and regularly forget them. Nevermind that I have nothing of real value to be discovered.
One good technique, I think, is to take the first letters of a chorus of a song. For example, “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” would be ISHFWILF. (It’s seemingly random and easy to type.)
Just don’t choose any Depeche Mode songs. We all know you like them and it’d be the first thing we’d try.
/paranoia
August 20th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
That’s cunning;)) They’d need ages to crack such one. I don’t use only letters or numbers in the psw. It makes it more difficult, tho still fairly easy for an expert, I am sure. But much like you, I really have nothing to be discovered.
Michael, did you see the concert, btw;)?
August 21st, 2006 at 10:14 am
I didn’t. In fact, I think I’m the only person who didn’t. Which is sad on one hand, but good on the other because I now qualify for the Guiness Book of World Records as “Only guy in Slovenia who missed the Depeche Mode concert.”
Maybe next time.