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The cat knows more about my computer than I do!

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  • R Rage

    But do you have access to your email from another location/other computer then ? Or to your bank ?

    Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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    OriginalGriff
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    My Email is configured to read on my tablet, and my bank I only access from the PC (it's the safest place, given that I know what anti-virus and anti-keylogger stuff is on it).

    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

      My Email is configured to read on my tablet, and my bank I only access from the PC (it's the safest place, given that I know what anti-virus and anti-keylogger stuff is on it).

      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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      Rage
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      #12

      OriginalGriff wrote:

      anti-keylogger

      Do you log your anti-keys ? :rolleyes:

      Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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      • J Jorgen Andersson

        Besides what Rage already stated, the XKCD[^] reference.

        Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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        Rage
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        #13

        Ironically, I use passphrases since I came across this XKCD. Works like a charm *. * The ease to remember part. The secure part I do not know, but I haven't been hacked so far.

        Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          All my passwords are GUIDs - and I never type them! The idea is that I don't end up with the same password on two different system, so a security failure at the other end only compromises the one site. I have an application that manages them all for me, and I just copy'n'paste them in. It's a habit now: I need a password for this new site - run GetGUID which is just a C# app to generate a guid and copy it to the clipboard, set the site, save it in the app. The app encrypts the data, so the only password I need to remember is the one for the app. The PC in in my house, Herself is free to use it if she wants, and there is nothing on there that isn't encrypted that needs to be secure. I have good backups, so why hassle myself with a startup password? :laugh:

          Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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          Richard Deeming
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          OriginalGriff wrote:

          All my passwords are GUIDs

          Well that narrows down the number of passwords we need to try to hack your account! :-D We know they're all the same length, and they only contain 0-9 and either A-F or a-f. Depending on what type of GUID you've generated, and whether you generated them all on the same computer, they probably all contain the same prefix too.


          "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

          "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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          • R Rage

            OriginalGriff wrote:

            anti-keylogger

            Do you log your anti-keys ? :rolleyes:

            Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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            OriginalGriff
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            No, I flog them. There's quite a profit to be made selling antikeys - it's just like anti-matter for information. :laugh:

            Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

            "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
            "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

              No, I flog them. There's quite a profit to be made selling antikeys - it's just like anti-matter for information. :laugh:

              Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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              Rage
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              #16

              Thank you for this piece of infor... oh, it just vanished !

              Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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              • R Rage

                Thank you for this piece of infor... oh, it just vanished !

                Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                OriginalGriff
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                #17

                Think of it as a free sample! ;)

                Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                • C Corporal Agarn

                  My cat gets on the chair behind me and I end up on the front edge before I banish him. At which point he comes back and gets behind me again. He also looks over my shoulder to watch me typing or playing solitaire. :)

                  Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.

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                  Bergholt Stuttley Johnson
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                  Playing solitaire? is he any good at it? least it stops him looking over your shoulder

                  You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    I didn't know there was a "Sleep" button on my keyboard. He did. All I know is my monitors went blank without the PC shutting down... Worked out it was sleep mode, and woke it up - only to be presented with the login screen. Do I know my MS password? Do I heck as like! I know it's a GUID, but that doesn't help much. I keep it in a file and access it via an application ... which runs on my PC ... ah. No problem! I can access the file from the backup on the NAS. Except...it's encrypted and I need the app to decrypt it...:sigh: So I tried "Restart" and ... it worked, once it had installed a bunch of "this morning" updates. And it doesn't ask for my password, because I have that turned off. And now Sleep won't either, and I have a copy of my password on my tablet. This has "one of those days" written all over it. :laugh:

                    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                    Marc Clifton
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                    My cat is quite entertained by the mouse -- well, the mouse pointer on the screen! Marc

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      I didn't know there was a "Sleep" button on my keyboard. He did. All I know is my monitors went blank without the PC shutting down... Worked out it was sleep mode, and woke it up - only to be presented with the login screen. Do I know my MS password? Do I heck as like! I know it's a GUID, but that doesn't help much. I keep it in a file and access it via an application ... which runs on my PC ... ah. No problem! I can access the file from the backup on the NAS. Except...it's encrypted and I need the app to decrypt it...:sigh: So I tried "Restart" and ... it worked, once it had installed a bunch of "this morning" updates. And it doesn't ask for my password, because I have that turned off. And now Sleep won't either, and I have a copy of my password on my tablet. This has "one of those days" written all over it. :laugh:

                      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                      Slacker007
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                      OriginalGriff wrote:

                      I know it's a GUID

                      A little over kill, no?

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                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                        I didn't know there was a "Sleep" button on my keyboard. He did. All I know is my monitors went blank without the PC shutting down... Worked out it was sleep mode, and woke it up - only to be presented with the login screen. Do I know my MS password? Do I heck as like! I know it's a GUID, but that doesn't help much. I keep it in a file and access it via an application ... which runs on my PC ... ah. No problem! I can access the file from the backup on the NAS. Except...it's encrypted and I need the app to decrypt it...:sigh: So I tried "Restart" and ... it worked, once it had installed a bunch of "this morning" updates. And it doesn't ask for my password, because I have that turned off. And now Sleep won't either, and I have a copy of my password on my tablet. This has "one of those days" written all over it. :laugh:

                        Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                        Lost User
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                        #21

                        Almost a cat-astrophe? :)

                        Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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