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Comment on Passwords On Post-its? You Bet! by Jim Rippon

Jim Rippon — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:34:31 +0000

Why complicate matters?

I encourage my users to write down their passwords, it means they are more likely to choose difficult-to-crack passwords.

The only caveat is that they must treat their passwords as they do their credit cards. They should be kept on them at all times, and if they lose them or they are stolen we are informed.

Comment on But What I Really Meant To Write Was… by Paul Theodoropoulos

Paul Theodoropoulos — Mon, 07 May 2007 23:11:17 +0000

Classic anonymous coward. It’s a shame you don’t even understand the concept behind the phrase you tossed out.

security through obscurity ALONE is no security at all. however, obscurity is an important component of most security schemes.

it’s precisely why we use passwords in the first place. obscurity is implicit in the concept of a password.

Comment on But What I Really Meant To Write Was… by Pizza

Pizza — Mon, 07 May 2007 23:05:19 +0000

Congratulations.
You have learnt that security through obscurity is no security at all by wasting a lot of other people’s time.
Please next time do us all a favour. Shut up and read a good book on the subject.

Comment on Small Town News by Paul Theodoropoulos

Paul Theodoropoulos — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:29:38 +0000

i don’t watch TV before the evening, so I’ve no idea what the morning show is like. However, a little civility please. I think it’s unfair to suggest nepotism is at work here. On-air talent is hard to come by, especially for an itsy-bitsy station in an itsy-bitsy market. KFTY got lucky – so to speak – with the team they had for the evening news before it was dismantled. With the exception of some ‘cub reporters’, the quality of the broadcast was decent by all reasonable measures. The cub reporters were still wet behind the ears; I’ve seen meltdowns of near equal liquidity on the majors over the years as well – just not as frequently.

Ultimately I can’t comment on Maria Bremer, having never seen her work. But show a little humanity, that’s a real person you’re talking about there, working an itsy-bitsy market – one has to learn somewhere, some time, and it’s the minor markets where most on-air talent do their learning.

Comment on Small Town News by M

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:13:52 +0000

This station has gone into the toilet! If you watch the Armstrong and Getty simulcast from 6-10A, you will most days be forced to listen to and watch the disastrous Maria Bremer, mangling the news and weather. She is simply AWFUL, she speaks as if she is reading cue cards translated into English from Mongolian, and neither is her native language! She mumbles, stumbles and fumbles, and has that “deer in the headlights” startled look of the truly incompetent. She apparently thinks that UH and UM are real words and she uses them all the time, over and over. It is painful to watch. Some days, Brent Allen is there, and those days are watchable, but when the dreadful Maria is on, I have to turn off the tv or I would start screaming at the horrible Maria. GET RID OF THIS UNTALENTED WENCH, GET BRENT ALLEN THERE FULL TIME! She must be the daughter or girlfriend of someone at the station, she would never be on air otherwise!!!