Subj : Re: Passwords and bleeding hearts.
To   : BOB KLAHN
From : alexander koryagin
Date : Tue Apr 22 2014 10:33 am

Hi, BOB KLAHN!
I read your message from 19.04.2014 00:02

 BK> Just thinking about passwords earlier today. Seems we get all these
 BK> warnings to construct complicated pass words no one will be able to
 BK> guess.

 BK> Now, I'm wondering, who would spend a lot of time to guess my
 BK> password? If I had a lot of money, yes, but other than that?

 BK> Now we have the Heart bleed data problem. Before that the Target
 BK> data theft, and other data breeches. Seems the danger is not
 BK> password guessing, but outright theft.

 BK> So, just what is the danger from a simpler password, versus a
 BK> complicated password, when their not going to guess it, but to
 BK> steal it?

 BK> Now this is especially true on sites where all you want to do is
 BK> read something, like a magazine website. Why have to mix your
 BK> capital and small letters with at least one number? It's not the
 BK> NSA you know... and they have your number anyway.

I think that 95% of people now use password managers. They store your
passwords, and every password can be found and entered very quickly. If
5% of people don't use such programs they simply haven't heard of them.
;-)

The length of the password means nothing for a password manager. You
enter 20 digits passwords as easy as short ones. The program stores the
encoded passwords base, as a rule on a movable disk. The program itself
can generate very complicated, long passwords. You don't need to
remember them. Why and how often should you change your passwords? It
depends on where you use a particular password. If a hacker has stolen
your password from your e-mail he can use your box as a spam sender and
some servers can block your address as if you are a spammer.

Bye, BOB!
Alexander Koryagin
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