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Comment Yup! (Score 1) 1

by basking2 on Wednesday March 26, 2008 @08:25AM (#22867990) Attached to: Corporate IT password policy

Audit requirements could very well be the cause of this. I'm also of the opinion that in a world where I have to remember too many passwords / codes / phrases, I think writing the passwords down is perfectly good practice. Now... the leaving on the desk bit would concern me, but putting them in a wallet is a great idea.

I actually prefer physical notes to digital because when someone takes your "cheat sheet" you are more likely to notice. Even better, if it is in your wallet, you will certainly notice. :)

It's all about threat models and reducing risk.

Submission + - '55 Science Paper Retracted to Thwart Creationists

Submitted by i_like_spam on Thursday October 25, 2007 @12:55PM

i_like_spam writes: The New York Times has an interesting story about a paper published in 1955 by Homer Jacobson, a chemistry professor at Brooklyn College. The paper, entitled "Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life", speculated on the chemical qualities of earth in the Hadean time, billions of years ago when the planet was beginning to cool down to the point where, as Dr. Jacobson put it, "one could imagine a few hardy compounds could survive." Nobody paid much attention to the paper at the time, but today it is winning Dr. Jacobson acclaim that he does not want — from creationists who cite it as proof that life could not have emerged on earth without divine intervention. So after 52 years, he has retracted it.

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