set up password change regularly with certain rules

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Wed Nov 7 18:41:55 UTC 2007


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>
> Create a password using the name of the site, e.g. amazon.  Once  
> that is typed in, press the home key to position the insertion  
> point at the beginning of the word.  Now type your favorite static  
> password, say p4ssw0rd, one letter at a time, with a right-arrow  
> after each letter typed.  The result will be something like:
>
> pa4msaszwo0nrd
>
> Unique for each site, easy to remember for each site, and defeats  
> keystroke loggers or shoulder surfers.

Dunno why you think that defeats a keystroke logger.  Do you think  
they don't log the home or arrow keys?  And if you are that borked  
anyway, they're likely scanning your outbound traffic which puts out  
the results, not the steps it takes to get there.

Brian

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