[Discuss] password amnesia

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)]

Kent Borg wrote:
> Or, demonstrating how frustrating it is to have a bad solution.  But
> most humans can cache a few passwords, and that makes all the difference.

Where the tiny shiny is, in my estimation, fundamental to the bad 
solution. The pure convenience ideals of smartphones and tablets do not 
dispose these devices to strong security.


> having remote access.  (Old-timers: Remember when we didn't really have
> any remote access to much of anything?  Okay, let that offer a little
> perspective.)

No, but I do remember when we generally didn't care much about security 
beyond whether a particular DOS diskette had a boot sector virus. Those 
were the days when guest accounts were commonplace and RMS could get 
away with having no passwords on any of his accounts.

Then Robert Morris happened (remember him? that wasn't so long ago) and 
everything started changing.

-- 
Rich P.