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My tried and true Perfectly Automated Security System With Otherwise Randomizing Denotations, or P.A.S.S.W.O.R.D., works best for me.
 Or was that Pathetically Absurd Silly Statement With Otherwise Rubbish Dialog?  
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Its good practice to use secure passwords that are a mixture of letters, numbers, and punctuation. Got that. Its good practice to not use familiar words. Got that. It is good practice to have different passwords for each site. Got that. It is good to make passwords as long a possible. Got that.
Great! I have 167 different passwords using random characters, each 20 bytes in length. Oh. Did I forget. You shouldn't write down your passwords, either. AWESOME!
At work I use the same 8 character password across all servers and mainframe so I only have to remember one. It comprises upper lower characters, numbers, and punctuation. Each character is typed switching hands, so right left right left, and so on. And it changes every 45 days.
At home, I use four or five variants of the same complex password that is 14 characters in length.
I think I'm good until some site is hacked and its all exposed.
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An interesting idea, but seriously, when's the last time you heard about hackers getting into an account by brute force cracking the password? Its all about social engineering and vulnerabilities like bashbug.
I like his idea, I might even use it someday, but since the passwords are not really the weak link in the security equation anymore, it seems like a lot of effort to make yourself no more secure.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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I use multi-factor authentication. My finances are on my Surface Pro. I always run Quicken on an external monitor, and Quicken isn't smart enough to reposition the launch location when the monitor isn't connected. As for my passwords, they're all in Norton on my old laptop.
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I still prefer using Base64: CodeProject ==> Q29kZVByb2plY3Q= Done.
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It should be a passphrase: not a password.
I don't entirely agree that a memorable pattern is vulnerable to attack. What is easy to remember for one person may be difficult for another. I can't remember chess moves, football scores or bridge hands but I can remember routes. Everyone is different.
The old Data General root password was DE2LA6. Took me ages to remember that: then I was told, it was a football score: Detroit 2, LA 6. Is it a memorable pattern? Yes to someone interested in football scores from a game that was played 40 years ago. Anyone else, I don't think so.
Another example of something memorable is words of a nursery rhyme where you and your siblings changed all the words and syntax and had a laugh about it. Nobody else knows these words except you and your siblings: is that vulnerable to attack? I don't think so (except from your siblings).
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Probably been linked to somewhere on here before[^] but today's effort is mighty fine, and links into the thread about the Queen of Canada from earlier in the week.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: the thread about the Queen of Canada from earlier in the week.
I believe it was in reference to her business card and it just got complicated. 
There's just something about a queen dressed as cat woman that turns my crank.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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Good idea, but I highly dislike this kind of sketching. It looks to me as those cliparts from MSOffice back in Win95 time.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Sorry, but I can't read the name of the site without picturing nasty, creepy little men who turn out to be sex offenders.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The answer "up my own [REDACTED]" will not help.
I'm looking for a Git repo to store code,designs,docs etc,etc,etc.
I would like to have it [0] private and [1] free. bitbucket.org[^] looks a possibility, any others?
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If it works, send it to me.
If it doesn't, make it work, then send it to me.
If you do a really good job, I'll license it back to you.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I can't do that. I made a pact with the Devil to shower me with eternal riches should I sign over the rights to his organisation. Well that's what I thought.
Due to misreading the contract I sold out to Santa and each Christmas I get a bloody box set of bloody Eastenders highlights of bloody Alfie bloody Moon!
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I'm clearing out my garage at the moment, could probably find some space for it in there. It's been a few years since we've had any problems with mice in there so it should be safe enough.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: since we've had any problems with mice in there
How did you get rid of them ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Get a few rats to eat the mice 
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I ignored them until they moved somewhere nicer.
This is also the tactic I have used with my next door neighbours who have sold their house this week.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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 Same situation here. The house is on sale, but they have bought somewhere else, so should be away quite soon.
As for the mice, I hoped for a good tip, because I cannot seem to get rid of them... 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I noticed some chewed stuff one day, some droppings, had a bit of a tentative poke around and couldn't see anything moving around. Cleared out a while later and there was no further sign and I haven't seen anything since.
Sorry.
Try a snake.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Seriously, terriers are great for getting rid of mice/rats/ferrets/French.
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Huddersfield Town supporters? I am surprised I didn't think they were good at anything, only problem is that an infestation of footy fans from Huddersfield is probably 10000x worse than mice
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Stop feeding them Nagy's code
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Mice - cheap, red and white, plastic mousetraps. Available from Amazon.
Smear with crunchy peanut butter.
Wash after use(that's the nice thing - unlike wood, there's no odour of dead mouse so the little suckers fall for it again and again.)
I had a canny House Mouse, a veteran of mouse wars who used to crap on my computer every night. Keyboards. Phone. 'Mouse'. He was troublesome. He visited the trap four times, each time there was less peanut butter. Built up his confidence; when it happened, there was a look of shock frozen in his cold, dead eyes.
After that is was his family of field mice, but they were easy.
Eventually the pregnant mummy mouse had no-one left to forage for her. Clack!
Don't forget to block the entry points with steel wool.
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I once had some mice running around the garage. Mousetraps + peanut butter FTW.
(On a side note, they were doing construction in a field about two blocks away, it was surprising to me that little mice would run that far and skip all the other houses between. I suppose it was because, at the time, the gold dog's food would be out in the garage, and mouse #1 told all his buddies).
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If you need I know a guy from Hamelin ... it could be costy
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