Re: Keeping track of a lot of passwords

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From: Hari Seldon
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:19

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In <14jsa6INNd1a@iraul1.ira.uka.de> S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:

>In <62453@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com writes:
>[...]
>>  How do you keep track of all these passwords?  Using the same password
>>  all over the place is dangerous, but how can you remember several dozen
>>  or more passwords, especially if the systems enforce restrictions on
>>  the passwords?
>[...]
>>  --Tim Smith

>I know a guy who writes down all of his numerous passwords in his
>notebook, in plaintext. The catch: he does so in Japanese letters,
>assuming that hardly anyone (here in Germany) knows how to read them.
does this not fall into security by obscurity????

bill pociengel
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bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu

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