| By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, December 29, 2024 - 01:53 pm: Edit |
With one exception, Mutant is spot-on. I've been training / working as a Defensive Cyber Ops technician for the past four years. It is a scary world out there. I refuse to do on-line banking and refuse to allow auto-pay to pull straight out of my checking account.
Quote: I think it is possible to access this site mostly via HTTPS and hence without sending your password in the clear.
Nope. Sadly, the DISCUS software is hard-coded to use HTTP only, and because you send the username/password only when posting, for every post, there's no way to get around that vulnerability. It's just something we have to be willing to live with, if we want to communicate with the ADB crew.
So, we're back to the highly recommended suggestion of "Don't use this password anywhere else."
Garth L. Getgen
| By Ken Kazinski (Kjkazinski) on Sunday, December 29, 2024 - 07:06 pm: Edit |
You should always use different passwords at each site you visit. You should also not use a recognizable pattern to your passwords. If you use a simple pattern for each site, once one site is compromised someone can guess your password via the pattern.
| By Jason E. Schaff (Jschaff297061) on Monday, December 30, 2024 - 07:49 am: Edit |
Unfortunately, there are a couple problems in the modern world with not doing auto-payment or online banking.
1. Show me a bank anymore that is open after normal business hours or on Saturdays. No online banking = no depositing checks or else taking time off work to do so.
2. If you pay bills by check, you should only be putting them in the mail at a post office. Theft of checks out of mail boxes with subsequent alteration is a rapidly increasing crime.
| By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Monday, December 30, 2024 - 01:24 pm: Edit |
I do have auto-pay, but not straight out of my account. Everything is charged to one credit card that is never used for anything else. I pay it off every month. And bonus -- it's a cash-back card.
Garth L. Getgen
| By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Monday, December 30, 2024 - 01:44 pm: Edit |
>> Theft of checks out of mail boxes
This happened to me one time, in our quiet little neighborhood. 8 outgoing envelopes stolen, and a nice big mess to unravel. I've dropped everything directly in a USPS mailbox or at the post office since.
--Mike
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, December 30, 2024 - 02:26 pm: Edit |
A friend of mine saw someone messing with his mailbox, and ran outside waving his pistol to make a citizens arrest. Turned out to be a lady leaving a flyer about her lost dog, and the sheriff was very upset with the whole mess. My friend ended up with a weapons conviction.
| By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Monday, December 30, 2024 - 02:43 pm: Edit |
Keep a notebook (Dead Tree) with passwords?
Personal Emergency Non-Computerized Information Lifesaver and Personal Emergency Protector of Emergency Records...
(Can't go wrong with P.E.N.C.I.L. and P.A.P.E.R. 
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| By Stephen G. Parry (Mutant) on Monday, December 30, 2024 - 07:40 pm: Edit |
There are of course weaknesses in the P.E.N.C.I.L. and P.A.P.E.R. approach. The most troublesome is actually generating unique passwords for each and every site, that are easy to write down, without making a discernable pattern. I access a bazillion sites (+-a shed load). However, there is an approach, with two variations, which I have used successfully at times:
1. Create a simple program, in an easy programming language that can interface with an Open source dictionary API like WordNet. Get it to pick three random words totalling at least 12 characters. Capitalise at least one of the words, then add one random punctuation character, avoiding spaces and percent signs (these upset some systems), at the end or between two of the words.
Write it in your little black book.
2. Do the same, but using only paper. Use some percentile dice, a paper dictionary and a table of symbols with a d6, d10 or d12. Pick the page number in the dictionary using the percentile dice. Roll again for the word on the page. Or just pick. Write it in your little black book.
Either approach will give you a password you might even remember in a pinch (black books get lost or stolen), which will be secure and satisfy the pickiest of sites. I have even used (2) with our students - although I do pick the words from my head, which is risky. The system I created for my last industry employer used (1) although only generating two words. The amusing thing was how often it picked a remarkably crude, insulting and totally appropriate combination of words for the person intended to use it.
| By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Wednesday, January 01, 2025 - 01:49 pm: Edit |
Passwords? Here is one easy way https://xkcd.com/936/
I usually use an expletive however...
| By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Tuesday, January 14, 2025 - 02:52 pm: Edit |
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| By John L Stiff (Tarkin22180) on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 - 11:52 am: Edit |
Jean and Albert,
Congrats on selling a pilot script to Paramount!
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