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WCDT Strips 3386 - 3390 (2nd - 6th January 2017)
Case:
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 04 Jan 2017, 23:05 ---When all you have is a crowbar... from orbit...
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You can 'drop' it out the airlock, look at it expectantly, and then curse decades of SF "science"-consumption when it fails to do anything but gliding peacefully along on the orbit you both share?
Yeah, I know that feeling.
Akima:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 05 Jan 2017, 12:39 ---So long as a password is not able to be guessed by any likely means, then randomness is not so important. What matters is sufficient length to make breaking it impractical. Of course, something based on words, like a passphrase, needs to be longer than a purely random password, but being so much easier to remember is far less likely to get written down.
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All very good points. One crucial attraction of rolling dice, or other sources of entropy, in PIN/password/passphrase generation is that they remove unconscious biases. I hope everyone in this forum is too sophisticated to commit basic blunders like choosing their birthday, name of their pet, their favourite football team etc. as a password, but I suspect we are all less unique and unpredictable than we think we are.
brasca:
Good to see that they will have to find an alternative plan since using a rail gun to solve this problem would quickly lose them any moral high ground.
pwhodges:
To round off the password discussion, here is advice from the UK's QCHQ, no less!
https://cassland.org/words/Password_guidance_-_simplifying_your_approach.pdf
Tova:
Some form of social engineering attack is most likely to be successful, both in this QC story line and in real life.
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