<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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 href="http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html" target="_blank">http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html</a><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>+1 to both. My Lastpass passphrase is Diceware.<br><br></div><div>Also:<br><br></div><div> - don't let browsers remember your passwords<br></div><div> - don't use the same password on more than one site<br></div><div> - use 2-factor authentication whenever you can<br></div><div> - periodically print your password list and store it in a safe place<br></div><div> - make up fake answers to verification questions and record them, e.g., in your password manager<br></div><div> - understand that even if you do everything right, shit happens like vulnerabilities/hacks/social engineering, so perfect security isn't achievable<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>-Dave<br></div></font></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">I heard of this guy who has solved his memory for password problem: He enters something, anything, and the program tells him that his password is incorrect. And that <i>is </i>his password: incorrect.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div></div></font></span></div></div></div>
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