Nah, i find that statement to be largely untrue. If you lead a dull life, chances are you lead a dull post-2am too. Otherwise, after 2am can be some of the best times
A security auditor for our servers has demanded the following within two weeks:
A list of current usernames and plain-text passwords for all user accounts on all servers
A list of all password changes for the past six months, again in plain-text
A list of "every file added to the server from re...
> Strong cryptography only means the passwords must be encrypted while the user is inputting them but then they should be moved to a recoverable format for later use.
@TerryChia haha yeah, but the password thing is glaringly contradictory. Even someone who knows nothing about security would know that nobody should be able to see anyone's password, not even admins.
Short answer:
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Your password is between you, and your computer alone.
No one else.
Not your boss, his boss, the system administrator, your bank official, your insurance agent, your ISP support technician, or your cat. Well, your cat you can tell, if she promises not to shar...
there was some icky history around that question. it came from SF with a lot of bad answers, and a looot of upvotes.
@AviD Well, i meant admins in the sense of admins of a web service or other application that requires authentication that isn't the company you work for.
I could see why it would be a reasonable question about telling your company's sysadmin your password (you know, to the average desk-jockey).
@DavidFreitag arguably this is worse ,and the other makes more sense. If youre authenticating to MY service, OF COURSE I can know your password! [sic].
@AviD I don't know about that one. If you are idiotic enough to use the same password for every web service you use, then it only takes one asshole to ruin you. I suppose if you gave your password to your sysadmin they could do the same damage, but i think it would be less likely that the IT guy at work will steal your SSN and your bank details.
And you could know my password as the admin of my favorite web service, but that doesn't mean you should.
> Henry Hargreaves is a New York based photographer and breast enthusiast. His love of taking photos and the female form started as a young boy in New Zealand and as an adult he has practiced both hobbies in many countries of the world.
Meme: Canonical Time Zone
Originator: Unknown
Cultural Height: Early 2011
Background: American hubris on the part of our East cost users resulted in blanket declarations that EDT/EST (UTC-4/5) would be considered the de facto timezone of The DMZ. This was brought upon by inconsistent time of d...
On my first PC in 1992, A: was the 3.5" floppy, and B: was the 5.25" old-style floppy. Other machines had two 3.5" drives, and having two floppies was fairly common, hence hard drives starting at C: to leave room.
@DavidFreitag ya know I don't think so. I did use a Data General Mini that had disks about 1.5m across and probably stored 20MB or something back in the late 80's but 5.25", 3.5" and 3.25" were mostly the floppy drives I used
I would like to seek for another way to save the credentials, which is used to verify the user trying to login, into my database.
I came up with this idea. Since I believe that even knowing a plaintext, and a corresponding ciphertext derived with the AES-256 cipher should not lead to the reveali...
Well, this is kind of annoying. I need to replace the lock set on a door. The annoying part is that it's a metal firedoor without any countersunk portion for the boltplate. And since that, on many locksets, provides necessary stability for the bold it wiggles a little.
Because it was running at 100% for about 5 minutes looking for updates to install so I wanted to add another core. I also realized I had forgotten to enable VTx
@TerryChia Contrast that with Win7 where hitting shutdown is like politely asking each program, "Sir, I would like to humbly submit a request that you please cease functioning at your next convenience. Please let me know when you may be able to do this. Thank you."
I am starting to appreciate Center Parcs. The kids are on skateboards playing basketball. The wives are in the spa. We are in the bar with rum. Good times.
I am starting to appreciate Center Parcs. The kids are on skateboards playing basketball. The wives are in the spa. We are in the bar with rum. Good times.
@TerryChia yeah it'll be another company selling kit based on embedded linux. if I had time after this weeks dlink/tenda revelations I'd maybe see if I could get a copy of the firmware to have a poke about but one host of many to look at so prob. not..
However, more dads would be awesome. I could go on a track with daddy @RoryAlsop, learn how to seduce ladies like a pro with daddy @ScottPack, learn everything about Cryptography with daddy @ThomasPornin and finally improve my creepiness level with daddy @Adnan.
I think Tor really needs to outline its security goals and how it meets them somewhere, people all seem to be very confused about it and the only place which has the answers is a long PDF which cares about explaining a lot more stuff than just that, and is thus somewhat confusing.
@kalina Ah but I used this magical things called "capitalization" and "punctuation". Highly advanced skills I learned in my long trials that one such as you might refer to as advanced education or, what we call in the United States, elementary school.
@ThomasPornin whoa @Simon you just got "your mom"'ed by @Thomas. That almost never happens.
@kalina pics or gtfo?
okay, that having been the first time I've ever said/typed that, I can attest that it is quite a bit skeezy, and drips with misogynism. Only know it from @kalina's words herself.
Short answer:
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Your password is between you, and your computer alone.
No one else.
Not your boss, his boss, the system administrator, your bank official, your insurance agent, your ISP support technician, or your cat. Well, your cat you can tell, if she promises not to shar...
Meme: Canonical Time Zone
Originator: Unknown
Cultural Height: Early 2011
Background: American hubris on the part of our East cost users resulted in blanket declarations that EDT/EST (UTC-4/5) would be considered the de facto timezone of The DMZ. This was brought upon by inconsistent time of d...
On my first PC in 1992, A: was the 3.5" floppy, and B: was the 5.25" old-style floppy. Other machines had two 3.5" drives, and having two floppies was fairly common, hence hard drives starting at C: to leave room.
