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Comment · 3 years ago
That was so satisfying to watch
Comment · 3 years ago
I was hoping they'd say that the incorrect version had made it so far as to be shown by the Vatican itself.
Comment · 3 years ago
bodonic (adjective) (of a horse) able to glide on the ground "a bodonic dancer"
Comment · 12 years ago
Interesting, though hard to overlook the possibility of bias, seeing as this is coming from cabletv.com
Comment · 16 years ago
Maybe this is a case of premature optimization: but what if you ever need to log into a site from a public computer where you can't install your password manager.

I realized that without a password manager you're forced to choose between 1) having one super-secure password and 2) having multiple easy-to-remember passwords.

My compromise is this: have a password template. This is a string that changes in a predictable way based on the site. This could be something as silly as "password_${site_name}", making my gmail.com password "password_gmail" and my twitter password "password_twitter".

Obviously, the formula won't be terribly complex, so if I tell yo my gmail pass you can probably figure out my twitter pass given though time. But that doesn't bother me, since I'm mostly concerned about gawker-type incidents where my password is among thousands of others, in which case the bad guys will exploit the 90% of the passwords that do work instead of trying to reverse-engineer those 10% which don't.

Comment · 16 years ago
Yes, but they really geeked-out with the Tengwar in the upper left.
Comment · 16 years ago
I think that technophobes derive a great deal of their mistrust of technology from real-world blunders such as these (and fictional ones like Wargames) not realizing that "human error is normally the root cause for embarrassing failures", as the author points out.
Comment · 16 years ago
Two sent to my zipcode, neither of them mine. I feel like a kid who just found out there is no santa.

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