[Discuss] Thunderbird problem

pw p.willis at telus.net
Thu Aug 2 10:43:14 PDT 2007


Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 
> In general don't do that, and even if you choose to ignore this standard
> advice to use a variety of passwords, certainly don't advertise that you
> have ignored that advice!  This list is archived so anybody in the world 
> can
> read your above message and act on this information (i.e., remotely break
> into your box, figure out your root password, then remotely clean out your
> bank account using that same password).
> 
> I trust most Linux distros are more secure than windows machines, but that
> is not saying much, and regardless of OS, it is unlikely any computer
> connected to the internet is safe against a determined effort to crack it.
> Time to immediately change your root password to something completely
> different than your bank account password!
> 
> Alan

Would anyone be interested in a rotating user id and password server?
Essentially it would be a web page that generates a random length
alpha numeric user id and password between 8 and 250 characters each.

The output could be https or encrypted and emailed using the users 
public key.

A new user id and password every day/hour/minute of every day....

Peter



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