01-16-2016, 06:45 PM
...and here I was thinking a 4 character pin/pword has always been safe enough because it is easier to recall. Yet it is not prudent to use one pword for everything- email, banking, online this and that, voice mailbox and on and on. . . If we should ever make a list of all the passwords we have to keep track of. . . well.
Ever get caught in the grocery line, your debit card in the machine and promptly forgot the pword for that card? Then you close your eyes, air-tapping the number in your palm to recall it while impatient hisses and sighs behind you sliced the air around you making you forget even more? Hilarious, ain't it ;D?
And after all that, nothing is ever safe, so a longer, more complexed password is safer to protect what? Surely not our poor mental state. So let's go for one big size that fits all - make a pword, the names of say, at least four places / things in patois and use it for everything -can never be cracked 8). or can it, because everything can?
Speaking of safe: I noticed on the Lite Control Centre a lovely warning not to post / share our IP or Gateway address online. But don't I see Ip addresses posted on forums when people are asking for network help. Is that a 'safe' thing to be doing?
Ever get caught in the grocery line, your debit card in the machine and promptly forgot the pword for that card? Then you close your eyes, air-tapping the number in your palm to recall it while impatient hisses and sighs behind you sliced the air around you making you forget even more? Hilarious, ain't it ;D?
And after all that, nothing is ever safe, so a longer, more complexed password is safer to protect what? Surely not our poor mental state. So let's go for one big size that fits all - make a pword, the names of say, at least four places / things in patois and use it for everything -can never be cracked 8). or can it, because everything can?
Speaking of safe: I noticed on the Lite Control Centre a lovely warning not to post / share our IP or Gateway address online. But don't I see Ip addresses posted on forums when people are asking for network help. Is that a 'safe' thing to be doing?