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Chambers wrote:
> // If you instantiate the following class you WILL BE FIRED!!!
> class Singleton {
> ...
...this works in C++? Neat!
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>>>> You do realize that if it's a company machine, he controls the boot
>>>> order.
>>> Yes, but (IIRC) in this part of the discussion it was said that it
>>> would be difficult for the manager of a company to prevent system
>>> administrators to read confidential information.
>>>
>>> If you are the manager, you can instruct system administrators to set
>>> the desired boot order on your PC.
>> If you are the manager, you can instruct the system administrators to
>> keep out of your files. Why are we having this discussion again? ;-)
>
> Because not all sysadmins follow their manager's instructions.
...which is kind of the point I was making. ;-)
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> What is the current max length of a Windows password? I know my 20-
> character password had to be cut down to 14 IIRC on WinNT and possibly
> Win2K - the dumb thing seemed to be that when setting the password, the
> password got truncated and then hashed, but when checking, it was hashed
> as is (or vice versa), so if you set your password to a value that was
> too long, you could never login.
Isn't that cute?
Yes, I ran into this too. I think it varies depending on whether you use
LANMAN or Kerberos. (So... it's nice and reliable then!)
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:48712fff$1@news.povray.org...
> >>>> You do realize that if it's a company machine, he controls the boot
> >>>> order.
> >>> Yes, but (IIRC) in this part of the discussion it was said that it
> >>> would be difficult for the manager of a company to prevent system
> >>> administrators to read confidential information.
> >>>
> >>> If you are the manager, you can instruct system administrators to set
> >>> the desired boot order on your PC.
> >> If you are the manager, you can instruct the system administrators to
> >> keep out of your files. Why are we having this discussion again? ;-)
> >
> > Because not all sysadmins follow their manager's instructions.
>
> ...which is kind of the point I was making. ;-)
Yeah, but while it's hard to tell if someone has followed the instruction
"Don't read my files", it's fairly easy to tell if they've followed the
instruction to set the boot order of a particular machine..
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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> And if you *need* those backups, 'cause the darn HD of the workstation
> crashed, they are extremely secure? :)
You put an escrow key on a floppy and lock that up somewhere separate.
Some things could be easier, yes. :-)
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Helpful housekeeping hints:
Check your feather pillows for holes
before putting them in the washing machine.
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> This exact policy has led most passwords in the bank I work in to be a
> combination of a random prefix and a numerical postfix. When it's time to
> change the password, you just increment the postfix, and done.
Tried that, "Password is too similar to a previous one". I use that exact
system for a particular password, but this stupid system really forces you
to invent a totally new strong password every month.
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"scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote in message
news:4871c300$1@news.povray.org...
> > This exact policy has led most passwords in the bank I work in to be a
> > combination of a random prefix and a numerical postfix. When it's time
to
> > change the password, you just increment the postfix, and done.
>
> Tried that, "Password is too similar to a previous one". I use that exact
> system for a particular password, but this stupid system really forces you
> to invent a totally new strong password every month.
>
What I do is to pick a song or poem that I know well, and use 1 line of the
song each month. I'll reduce some words to just letters and replace some
letters with numbers. All I need to remember is the song, the line and what
conversion method I'm using.
Say for example Sting's song Desert Rose, I might get the following 4
passwords from the first 2 verses:
1DoR1DoGitDSand
1WiV1DoLaTRtmHand
1DoFTDaTtaHtwNTire
A1tFHSPitSoaMDesire
It's usually complex enough for most systems and it's a little easier to
remember than some made up mess.
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:16:10 +0200, "Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot
com> wrote:
>What I do is to pick a song or poem that I know well, and use 1 line of the
>song each month. I'll reduce some words to just letters and replace some
>letters with numbers. All I need to remember is the song, the line and what
>conversion method I'm using.
Thanks, I'm always on the lookout for ways of generating passwords.
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Regards
Stephen
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> What I do is to pick a song or poem that I know well, and use 1 line of the
> song each month. I'll reduce some words to just letters and replace some
> letters with numbers. All I need to remember is the song, the line and what
> conversion method I'm using.
I recall a study showed that if you just take any normal English
sentence and use only the first initial of each word, the result is very
similar statistically to a random selection of letters - in other words,
it makes quite a strong password. (Provided it's sufficiently long anyway.)
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scott wrote:
>> Dunno. I have loads of files on my computer that I wouldn't want to
>> put on a shared drive. Financial documents, scripts with passwords
>> embedded in them, drafts of letters, etc.
>
> But on a *work* computer?
>
Yeah, but some people put personal stuff on their laptop. I'm still
trying to figure out what to do with former system harddrives that had
quicken data on them. :/ Of course, due to recent problems around here
with ID theft, I'm the type of paranoid that probably shreds more than
the necessary amounts of paper. No sales receipt leaves my hands without
going through a shredder, first. Some shredders will destroy CD's BTW...
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