[153600] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Password safes &c. (was: Dear Linkedin,)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Fri Jun 8 17:16:16 2012
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20120608210739.GH10216@dyn.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 14:15:22 -0700
To: Andrew Sullivan <asullivan@dyn.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2012-06-08, at 2:07 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> I'm not trying to be dismissive. Those are excellent stopgap
> measures. They're not a solution.
There is no "solution." Security is about risk management, nothing =
more.
The only way to ensure your personal passwords are never compromised is =
to kill yourself after destroying all physical copies of those =
passwords. While ultimately secure, you won't be able to do your daily =
online banking.
--lyndon
