Showing posts with label password. Show all posts
Showing posts with label password. Show all posts

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Password Log

Forgotten password…

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Markus: Never keep password lists on your phone. It could malfunction, you could lose it, it could be stolen.

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Cynthia: Hmm. A vulnerable device.

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Markus: And with it your data could fly away as easily as a drone. Keep a record on a secure computer. Better yet on a password protected USB memory stick. Not connected to the internet or a WiFi environment. Portable, secure. And a copy on paper, securely locked up somewhere.

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Cynthia: But passwords have to be changed regularly. Keeping track of those, I mean, I sometimes use an old password by mistake.

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Markus: Keep your password records updated. Like an aircraft has to be maintained. Keep a logbook.

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Voice-over

Aircraft logs are a metaphor, like a desktop, or a folder or a trashcan on a computer. Maybe we don’t need a metaphor here but a model, that is a system or a procedure. A template.

Friday, August 24, 2018

Password Strength

Try "2 Cats @ Bali"

The principles are easy…
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Jane: Would a password eight letters long be strong enough?
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Sean: Not if it’s on the list of the top 10,000.
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Jane: What if I use a mix of letters and numbers? I heard that adds strength.
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Sean: To be sure it does. But a nonsense sentence would be better. Adds semantic randomicity.
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Jane: How about “surf’s up?”
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Sean: A bit short. Collocationally predictable, but easier to remember. Go for sixteen characters. Upper and lower case and symbols.
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Jane: How about “Surf’s Up @ 0824?”
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Sean: There you go now. Very strong. Would take a botnet years to crack that.
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Voice-over
A good online password checker here.
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