On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 02:05, David M. Fetter wrote: > > The only real way that I could think to limit that would be to use > biometrics and disable passwords for all accounts including > administrator. Personally, I'm wary of the use of biometrics for security. It's been demonstrated that fingerprint scanners can be easily fooled (gummy bear anyone?), voice recognition remains highly inaccurate, and eye scanners expensive. In this case, I agree with Rob Magee in that she probably waited for her father to leave the terminal open and unattended. This sort of thing happens more often than passwords being compromised by writing them down. The password sounded a bit too complicated to be easy to remember. Better to use a pass phrase and pick a combination of letters from it. You can then substitute numbers for letters, capitalize, etc. It may not be easy to remember directly but should be easy to figure out if you remember the original passphrase. Example: "I grew up in Denver, Colorado!" = "1guiD,C0!"
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