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Comment Re:It is (Score 1) 132

Very insightful. It would seem that you could build a simple processing facility to distill out propane from the hydrocarbon muck. Yeah would need a similar facility for purified methane anyway, so what's the diff? Not much.

Comment Re:*sigh* (Score 1) 306

Because smart people don't seem to want the job.

It's not that smart people don't want the job, smart people aren't electable. During an election they'll inevitably make a comment that hurts a special interest group and get whisked out of the public spot light before the next sun rise.

the key differentiator isn't smart people. it's people of conscience. people of conscience couldn't tie themselves into the mental knots required to say things like the tea party: "keep government hands off our social security!"

It's the pandering that's the hardest part for a person of conscience to accept.

Comment Re:is this good? (Score 1) 159

I think the greatest threat is not that passwords are too simple, but passwords are re-used.

I once queried one of my client's security tables to find the instances where multiple users had the same password (stored as a hash). Even though I expected some repetition, I was shocked at how many people had the same passwords.

I meant that a single user applies the same password to multiple sites. you're referring to many users who use the same password on one site.

Comment Re:Still waiting for a "hackability meter" (Score 1) 159

which is what I do and what I tell everybody to do. it doesn't have to be hard, it can be a system that is easy to remember. It defeats the two biggest threats to a user: 1) brute forcing "123456" and 2) getting hacked on site X because somebody pwned your password on site Y.

Comment Re:is this good? (Score 1) 159

I think the greatest threat is not that passwords are too simple, but passwords are re-used. cuz then it doesn't matter how secure your system is, if some other mofo is hacked and the user has the same pwd in both places, then you'll be compromised.

hint hint when you give users freedom to use a simple password that is easy to remember, they're more likely to use unique passwords. But when they have to use a c0mPleX! password, it will be reused because people's brains are only big enough for one complex password.

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