Interesting Links for 27-07-2015
Jul. 27th, 2015 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker- A great interview with the creators of Rick And Morty
- Genderflip: What would book covers look like if you reversed the genders of their authors?
- Some amazing body-paint cosplays (Venom is damned impressive)
- What's the right word for "Fear of finishing things"?
- A Three-Minute History of Global Warming
- How security experts stay safe online (hint: It's not the same way most of us do)
- Michael Moorcock: “I think Tolkien was a crypto-fascist”
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Date: 2015-08-01 07:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-08-01 01:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-08-01 07:53 pm (UTC)It's obviously easier to break one laptop password on a machine you've stolen than that password + X hundred web passwords.
Having your device stolen isn't the worst thing digitally that could happen to you.
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Date: 2015-08-01 07:55 pm (UTC)But the alternative is to either have your passwords be memorable (and mostly the same, unless you can remember dozens of passwords).
Having a bunch of different passwords, all kept behind one very secure one that you use nowhere else, strikes me as better than that.
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Date: 2015-08-01 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-08-01 08:28 pm (UTC)Password Managers encrypt all of your passwords, so you have to get through its password before you have access to anything.
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Date: 2015-08-01 09:51 pm (UTC)I've never forgotten my OS's password, but people must forget them, right? I very much doubt that totally bricks a device, which suggests there's a way in for technical types to reset the password when the forgetful take their devices in to be put right again.
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Date: 2015-08-01 09:53 pm (UTC)No, because the passwords are encrypted by the password manager.
"I've never forgotten my OS's password, but people must forget them, right? I very much doubt that totally bricks a device, which suggests there's a way in for technical types to reset the password when the forgetful take their devices in to be put right again."
With centrally controlled systems, yes. Because they had admin rights to the authentication servers. For your home PC? You're into a reinstall situation.
Edit: And in any case, getting past the OS wouldn't give you access to the passwords, as the Passwords Manager won't let you in!
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Date: 2015-08-01 09:58 pm (UTC)http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/what-do-forget-windows-password#1TC=windows-7
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Date: 2017-03-29 02:41 am (UTC)https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/03/potent-lastpass-exploit-underscores-the-dark-side-of-password-managers/