Passwords was: Netscape (was Re: PayPal = payola?)

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Mon Jan 28 19:27:33 2002

 While passwords may be necessary in a business environment,
they are a real pain to home-based single users or following owners.
I mean, really, I'm in the middle of nowhere in northern Manitoba,
in a house where I live alone with a protective dog, and only hook up
to my ISP when I want to access it. Do I need this ? But even my
NEXT demands a password and I had to do an extensive search to find
out how to re-do the original one. But of course the holy grail of
computer makers is that BIG contract.

 I have umpteen passwords in my life including my banks, my ISPs,
E-Pay, and a multitude of others, not to mention phone numbers and
other access code that I must keep track of. Do I really need more to
complicate my life. I thought that that's one of the things that computers
were for. To uncomplicate tasks and processes. On my computers
I DON"T NEED NO STEENKING PASSWORDS.
Windblows is the least of the transgressors. The UNIX type are the worst
since they grew up in a security-conscious business environment.

 Right now after going thru a difficult Linux Red-Hat install I can't find the
slip I wrote the password it insists upon, and must do a fresh install.
 Fuck it, I'll reformat and look at another OS.
 I believe that OS's or programs that don't provide non-password access
should be boycotted.

 I have a Grid laptop that I can read the HD of, in a nonprotected
same model, but not in the original, and ISTR Mike Ford had about 6
of them, now virtually worthless. Not battery dependant.

 Do these guys really think that passwords can protect their data if
they don't have physical access protection ? We all know that even
supposedly deleted files can be ressurected. This is SUIT mentality
and they live in an imaginary world that they proclaim is the BOTTOM
LINE, realistic view of things. As MS has learned to it's chagrin every
man-made "security" feature can be end-run by some bright young
hacker.

Lawrence






>On 28 Jan 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
> >
> > Hear Hear. Though, I may listen when Athlons have casters and a
> > respectable console firmware with "deposit" and "examine" commands,
> > at least. Bonus points if you can't get them to run windows should
> > your life depend on it.
> >
>
> Does it count if you can never remember your W2k password? Seems like
> I have to reinstall every time i boot to Windows. Wait. *Everybody* has
> to do that.
>
> Doc
>



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