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Re: LinkedIn password database compromised

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Jun 7 19:24:51 2012

Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:24:11 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Peter Kristolaitis <alter3d@alter3d.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20120607230045.98D40215BA84@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> Plus, now you have the problem of users not being able to login to
> their favourite websites when they're using a friend's computer,
> internet cafe, etc, unless they've remembered to bring a copy of their
> private key with them.

this is a feature, not a bug.  you should be explaining to them why they
should never type passwords on another's keyboard, log on to anything
from an internet cafe, ...

randy


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