PGP key passphrase lost

[Karl Larsen]

On 10/16/2010 03:03 AM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> On Saturday 16 October 2010, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> (...)
>    
>> I've always thought it funny how in most 'secure' places you will find a
>> plethora of passwords, usernames, keys, etc, all written down and stuck
>> to monitors or in a file on the desktop.  What's the point with this
>> false sense of security?
>>
>> Anthony
>>      
> People are afraid of what they don't understand, and the average computer user
> understands almost nothing at how his computer works, so of course he can't
> understand what is secure and what is not.
>
> So they trust "things" that are supposed to bring security: passwords,
> anti-virus, malware-blockers when the first security would be to understand
> how to work to minimise the threat (such as no html mails, not using mailers
> that could or will open attachments and so).
>
> They feel that "the web" is insecure. I always laugh when I remember that time
> when I purchased something online and the page said that if I felt insecure
> so input my credit card number, I could fax it to them, as if the risk of
> someone hijacking my mail was bigger that that of sending my CC number to a
> machine where I couldn't who could read it...
>
> Asking a user to create a password with over 10 characters, mixing letters,
> numbers and special characters can only be that the user will write it down.
>
> Thierry
>
>    
         20 years ago I had a Top Secret safe in my office. Security 
told me about the 10 character password with numbers. And NEVER write it 
down! It was Get1dogGet2dogs and it worked fine.


73 Karl


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