On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Ken Dibble <krdibble@stny.rr.com> wrote:

> In the case of passwords: Do you really think it's safer to keep your

> passwords on somebody's server that is potentially connected to every person

> who has access to a computer on the internet, than to just keep them on a

> piece of paper folded up in your wallet? Wallets are "portable" too.

Yup, I do. And I've given it a lot of thought.

507 passwords are unique, and when the site allows, 23 characters of

upper, lower, numeric and special. I don't have to distinguish zero

from Oh or a scribbled 6 from a lowercase g. I log on from a

half-dozen machines with at least 4 different OSes, all supported.

They're synchronized, easily to regularly update, and encrypted on my

local machine store as well as "in the cloud" so the exploit is going

to steal a fully-encrypted blob that will take them several decades to

decrypt. I'm not worried.

My "paper folded in the wallet" was an entire index card box and quite

a bit to manage.

> When are people going to stop this magical thinking about computers?

Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

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