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Back in my Silicon Valley days (in the late neolithic, pre-internet), there were definitely people who regularly went rummaging through dumpster bins of high-tech companies looking recyclable gear, trade-secrets, unannounced product details, passwords, credit card numbers, etc., and there was a well-known (text only) BBS for the Mac full of pirated wares using serial numbers found in said dumpsters, stolen by employees of software companies, hacked, etc.
One trash-removal company employee was reported to be one of the unseen-hands behind this BBS, and was a notable "personality" at Mac User Groups.
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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I used to always use passwords like "KeithS_19570812!", it meets most requirements of length, mixed case, numeric characters and symbols. I kept the password in my address book with the numeric part as a birthday (or phone number) and the name is optionally completed with surname. "Keith Smith" doesn't exist for me as a person - I know that, but a snooper wouldn't. I can look up the name and construct the password and only have to remember what name is for what system - a lot easier than remembering a bunch of random digits! My real contacts are intermingled with my passwords and only I know which are which. When it comes time to change a password due to compulsory expiry (a practice I personally disagree with) I can just change it to something like "Kenneth_20030613!" which is sufficiently different to pass password similarity checks and yet stays on the same page of my address book as a new name. I might even just list it as "Ken 13-Jun-2003". Effective obfuscation.
PS. I now use a different method that involves having a better memory and not writing anything down - only because I was too lazy to write all of them down.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: only because I was too lazy to write all of them down
Laziness is a great motivator.
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I have written some of my best code to get around my personal laziness?
Lazy pedants make the best programmers.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: I have written some of my best code to get around my personal laziness?
100% agree.
I was serious about laziness being a great motivator.
The best programmers are the lazy ones.
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There is a good post within the comments on the site of someone who suffered a temporary brain injury and could not even remember his name.
Having written down the passwords this helped his family.
It is something I have thought of doing and will probably do, only telling a few people where the information is.
Much of what I have is electronic nowadays, so people would not have a clue that I am in fact a 10pencionnaire if they did not have access to my accounts and shares.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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and if you lose it? if someone steals it? this is Not ok
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Second link is missing 'g' at end so you get a 404 when clicked.
To me it doesn't matter if he could see or not, it was quite a feet (pun intended) as Chicago is known as the windy city so it was pretty dangerous either way.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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The link is fixed.
As I said, I'm not putting down his bravery or skill - I sure as hell would not attempt it, but I think that having sight of your feat could come in useful while tightrope walking!
The use of such blindfolds in conjuring is a well known way for magicians to see what they are not supposed to see.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Chris Quinn wrote: I think that having sight of your feat could come in useful while tightrope walking!
I am honestly not sure that it is that useful. On the opposite : At least, you do not see down : it can only help
Seriously, maybe by eliminating one not so useful sense, you can focus more on the others.
~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 have trouble seeing my feet whether I'm blindfolded or not.
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Now, if he rode the great white shark...
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I know a guy in South Africa who does that[^]!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Mum knows best!
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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Idiot noooooo, moron yesssss!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Having read Mr Pye[^] a few years back, I imagine it must have been a rather aromatically challenging feat.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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The Darwin effect didn't kick in, oh well!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Rurik Jutting is accused of double murder in Hong Kong - and he left an out-of-office autoreply on his email when he quit his job:
"I am out of the office. Indefinitely. For urgent enquiries, or indeed any enquiries, please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath.
For escalation, please contact God, though suspect the devil will have custody."
O...K...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well Griffo, not sure I would like to have you in the jury in my trial for death row. Just because he's a dodgy psycho, that dont mean he's the only one.
Life is too shor
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Well...they did find one naked dead lady in his flat, and another decaying in a suitcase on his balcony.
But perhaps if they had looked earlier, they could have saved the second one?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, thanks for the tip. I will make sure to keep my flat tidy from such evidence!
I was almost under the impression that you saw his email as proof to hang him. But I guess I had missed the whole story.
: )
Life is too shor
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Are you sure it wasn't an Aspidistra? He could then claim "It was a plant!"
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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