Attached: 1 image 1/3 #TechTuesday #Password I have a #TechTip for you this week about how to create memorable, #Strong #Passwords such as a mix of letters and numbers, at least 1 uppercase, at least 1 special character, etc. I got this one from a video by an actual hacker. He said to think of a memorable sentence, and abbreviate it into a password. So, a sentence like "My birthday is the 29th of February!" abbreviates to "Mbit29thoF!". So it's strong, and easy to remember! But that's only the start...
@chucker @codinghorror
"thatβs good advice for your master password" - every password, all of them unique and memorable
"you shouldnβt even _know_ the password" - what's wrong with being the only person in the whole word who knows your own passwords, none of which are written down or stored anywhere at all? π
@SmartmanApps @codinghorror making a password memorable decreases its entropy. A random password you don't have to memorize can be longer.
That's why only the passwords you really _have_ to type in by hand should be memorable.
@chucker @codinghorror
"A random password you don't have to memorize can be longer" - the only limit to the length of this one is your own imagination.
"That's why only the passwords you really _have_ to type in by hand should be memorable" - yep, solved problem. Did you even read the thread?
@SmartmanApps your thread says:
>So what we want to do is follow this same process for each place and have a memorable strong password for that place.
Do not create memorable passwords for "places". Use a password manager.
I love a good XKCD comic; Randall Munroe has a unique way of cutting right to the crux of technology issues and always doing it in a humorous fashion. Little Bobby Tables [http://xkcd.com/327/] remains an all-time classic and itβs amazing how many times youβll see
@bob_zim @chucker
"No, this is terrible advice" says person who can't come up with a single reason why it's "terrible".
"As SΓΆren said" - who also couldn't come up with a single reason why this was "terrible".
"then all further passwords should be randomly generated" - they are. Dynrtt? (Did you not read the thread?)
"made up of dictionary words which I selected randomly, then memorized" - or you can just pick 1 memorable sentence to begin with! (Ycjp1mstbw!)
@bob_zim
"After reading some of that accountβs recent posts, they are similarly wrong" - says person who demonstrably stopped reading before coming to the MATHS TEXTBOOKS which prove it's all correct. All posts from this account are factual. I'm a Maths teacher
"which the poster asserts equals 1" - as do Maths textbooks and calculators
"parens resolve first yielding 8/2*4" - no, they yield 8/(2x4)=8/8
"then multiplication and division" - there is no multiplication, only brackets and division
@bob_zim
In other words, you disobeyed both The Distributive Law and the order of operations rules, hence your wrong answer
"depends on operating only in the space of real numbers" - we're not doing any operations, we are simply writing an infinitely recurring decimal. False equivalence argument, which you would know if you kept reading
"in the system of hyperreals, 0.9β¦ exactly equals 1" - we're still not doing any operations with it. It's still equal to infinitely recurring 9's, not 1.
Jeff Atwood
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