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When Bruce Schneier advises the use of password managers, one should
probably at least consider them. Basically, the problem is more
password re-use than central points of failure.<br>
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But important passwords should of course be made using Diceware
passphrases that are never written down or reused:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html">http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html</a><br>
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On 2016-03-30 01:56, Mike Dougherty wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">On Mar 29, 2016 3:35 PM, "William Flynn Wallace" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a></a>>
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> My solution: put everything in the cloud and make whoever
runs the cloud responsible, the way we do for our Visa cards
when someone runs up a tab on ours. Happened to me - cost me
nothing. Five minutes of inconvenience. I would favor
discontinuing using Social Security numbers for anything except
Medicare and IRS etc.<br>
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>> How would y'all feel about just changing all passwords
etc. daily and automatically by someone like Lastpass? Then the
onl<br>
>> y password we'd need is for Lastpass. You would not
need to know the changes yourself, but could log in and find
out.<br>
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<p dir="ltr">I am very much against any proposed solution that
begins with "how about just ..."</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just put all of your eggs in one basket, just put
everyone's basket in one bank vault, just put a single bank in
change of that vault, then just wait for the inevitable :
whether freelance hackers or state funded cyber terrorist,
eventually they'll get in and everything falls apart. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Even if they aren't there to steal your/our money,
simply wiping out all the accounting washes away the lies
underpinning the world economy. I don't think I'm prepared for
that. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Do you have anything in the form of a gradual and
understandable change in the fundamental nature of everyday
reality? </p>
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Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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