From: "A&S Hincks" 
To: "Richard Schwartz" ,
        "Bob May" 
Cc: "ATM List" 
Reply-To: "A&S Hincks" 


I can half understand why the govt might come down on the amateur rocket
community (stray rockets, solid fuel motors make for potential bombs) but
why on earth would they ever bother with a benign hobby like astronomy -
it's not like I am going to shoot down a spy satelite with my telrad...




----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Schwartz" 
To: "Bob May" 
Cc: "ATM List" 
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:42 PM Subject: Re: ATM Web Sight update


>
> If you think that passwords are any protection at all, think again.   Like
> locks, they only stop honest people, not crooks or cops.   See
> www.accessdata.com for more information.   As telescope makers, it is only
a
> matter of time until the government comes down on us as they have recently
> done to the amateur rocket people.
>
> If you want to keep information private, don't put it into your computer.
> There is only one secure method of encryption: the one-time-pad.   The
best
> way to make one is by some natural random process, like radioactive decay
or
> turbulent fluid flow (also known as "bad seeing").
>
> . . . Richard
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob May" 
> To: "atmlist" 
> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 11:44 AM
> Subject: Re: ATM Web Sight update
>
>
> >
> > Generally, the various webproviders usually have a email address at "
> > mailto:webmaster{at}webaddr.whatever " (the previous turned into the
mailto:
> > and blued when I typed it in but it's not a valid address!) and that
> usually
> > gets you there.  They often have a system of reminders and so forth for
> > "forgotten passwords" and so forth.
> > For passwords, I keep on for low level stuff, another for moderate duty
> > stuff and finally I keep a list of passwords on paper and in my computer
> of
> > high level passwords for that stuff that I don't want people getting
into.
> > I'll also note that passwords like "password" and
blanks are not very
much
> > of any protection.  Better to take something like a car name (good
except
> at
> > a car site!) or a deliberate misspelling of somebody's naem.  The thing
> here
> > is to make it obscure to the normal but significant to you but not in
any
> > biography of you or your family.
> > Bob May
> > http://nav.to/bobmay
> > bobmay{at}nethere.com
> > NEW! http://bobmay.astronomy.net
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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