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Password Selection
by Andrew McCaskey
The TPN Roundtable is posted for download at techpodcasts.com, along with the links to all of the listener nominated pages on selection of cool tools and downloads.
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Here’s the list, from the UK: thomas, arsenel,monkey, charlie, liverpool. Any ideas yet ? The next two are giveaways: qwerty and 123456; letmein is used by about 1 person in 600, but the ever popular 123 and password topped the list at 1 in 250. This list of ten passwords is only the top / or bottom depending upon your viewpoint 2% – but about 6.5% of the population uses passwords from the top 100 list. Seems that easily remembered trumps the dedicated security aware. Wikipedia has some interesting reading on mnemonic and patterned passwords.Mnemonic password is a way to manage those really obnoxious upper and lower ‘makes no sense’ sorts of passwords that our IT folks have fallen in love with - You take a phrase that you can remember like “In Dallas, there are 2 kinds of music – Country and Western”, and then reduce it down to “IDta2komC&W” which keeps the system happy.
Ham radio operators have a ready made source of easy to remember sequences, tying together names and faces- Actually, I suspect, pretty good when you combine the calls of a few buddies, add in portable and mobile designators or node-id’s. Add in a hex WEP key or two and your list is getting larger. And your ability to remember them.
Now here’s the problem: you need more than one password. Way more than a few. In fact maybe a dozen or so in the course of a day’s work – all of them rotating, timing out, and demanding replacement. Asynchronously.
Of course you would never catch me using a sticky note or under the deskpad recall system. That’s what EverNote is for. Glad I got that cleared up and can go back to work.
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Recent Items Mentioned:
Inbox Zero: One of the guideposts along the way will be some articles from the excellent site for personal productivity at 43 Folders , specifically an article entitled “My email diet” in the Inbox Zero – Day 1series.
From the 43Folders Inbox Zero process, I’m learning that these tools are no substitute for ruthless triage of escalating questions:
1. What does this message mean to me and why do I care ?
2. What action, if any, does this message require of me ?
3. What’s the most elegant way to close out this message and the nested action it contains ?
These questions were most valuable getting from 400 to 100 items. After that, the default
Outlook folder “Unread Items” kept the new stuff in one place – just reading headers and sender lines for easy zapping
The free 40 page downloadable e-Book from Rajesh Setty, a fellow Gnomedexer.. “Personal Branding for Technology Professionals”, It’s some heavy reality for anyone in the technology arena – especially the IT field or pure technologists.
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