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Google has taken to notifying me recently that passwords I
use on various sites (including the HB) have been seen in
breached password lists, often within the last few weeks.
At the same time, all the forced/change/format password
strategies have gotten all of us to the point of sheer
exhaustion.
Until
widespread/widely available other solutions arrive, I
propose the government seed such "breach database" with
numerous fake ids/passwordds/bank accounts, so that the
chances of a hacker stumbling on my particular password
are somewhat diminished.
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I don't think the government produce or sell these black market password collections? And if they did, they would be damaging their own business model by doing as you suggest? |
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really, even 9 billion? they can do that? |
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that was a rhetorical question |
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I wasn't. And I was programming in 53. |
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Well no I wasn't, but in 83, I was. Still am. |
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The widespread solutions like password managers and
even biometrics are not really solutions until they are
ubiquitous and fully integrated. My banking app can take
my fingerprint but not when I logon to a PC, etc. |
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Not that the proposed is really a solution beyond simply
illustrating a frustration. |
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Points though for the Clarke reference |
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Keyboard makers should popularize the fingerprint scanner
or iris scanning technology I have on my smartphone. I'm
sure they're out there, but not ubiquitous. |
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Really, I'd pay good money if a laptop manufacturer could
catch up to half the technology I have on my phone. |
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Convergence. Several attempts have been made to converge phones and laptops and tablets but the big money is still out there awaiting the "killer design". |
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The problem is the conflicting demands of ergonomics and performance; big screen but pocket sized ? Long battery life, but big, bright high-res display and quality stereo sound ? |
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Various "phone dock" technologies come close, but are still far from perfect. |
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// Even 8th can do that // |
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// Points though for the Clarke reference // |
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"overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out." |
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Maybe the answer is retro tech; ID via an 80-column punched card, or a length of Teletype paper tape - so old that hackers don't even recognize what they are. |
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Remember the lesson of how and why the Bismarck was sunk - "never underestimate the potential threat of a previous generation of technology". |
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That's why we keep our eyes on you... |
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Maybe do the programming in GW-Basic, BrainFuk, or
another language so horrid that only 4 people in the world
would want to even mess with it... |
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PC face scanners are there too but still not universal. What
does happen now is more of the key financial apps will take
the phone's integrated fingerprint scanner -- but websites do
no such things -- especially given that the browser is
actually prohibited from using a web cam without
permission. |
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This is the type of thing that would have been solved long
ago if Microsoft was allowed to remain a monopoly... Just
saying... |
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// another language so horrid that only 4 people in the world would want to even mess with it... // |
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//If Microsoft was allowed to remain a monopoly.// |
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Yes. 8th of 7 would be twitching in a corner somewhere
perpetually rebooting himself under a Blue Screen of Death
exception error, we'd all be asking Clippi instead of Siri
about the weather, and a tire rotation would've required a
registry update in my car's ECM. |
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And if your car wouldn't start, you'd have to try closing all the windows and then opening them again ... |
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