From: "Richard Schwartz" 
To: "Bob May" 
Cc: "ATM List" 
Reply-To: "Richard Schwartz" 


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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