http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/04/18/do-you-keep-your-passwords-in-a-document-file-on-your-computer/ Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/04/18/do-you-keep-your-passwords-in-a-document-file-on-your-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-1926 ZeRoRuNTiMe Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:36:51 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/04/18/do-you-keep-your-passwords-in-a-document-file-on-your-computer/#comment-1926 My favorite program to store passwords is Any Password (http://www.anypassword.com/). Also, for war driving your neighborhood I saw a cool device at <a href="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/itemdetails.asp?dpNo=1238908&Sku=C277-1000." rel="nofollow">http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/itemdetails.asp?dpNo=1238908&Sku=C277-1000.</a> It is a little pricey for me, but if I traveled, I would get one no question. Also, I'm sure everyone reading this knows Word docs and the like can be cracked easily. I would never depend on a none encryption program for security. My favorite program to store passwords is Any Password (http://www.anypassword.com/). Also, for war driving your neighborhood I saw a cool device at http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/itemdetails.asp?dpNo=1238908&Sku=C277-1000. It is a little pricey for me, but if I traveled, I would get one no question. Also, I’m sure everyone reading this knows Word docs and the like can be cracked easily. I would never depend on a none encryption program for security.

]]> http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/04/18/do-you-keep-your-passwords-in-a-document-file-on-your-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-1925 Rob van der Burgt Mon, 18 Apr 2005 23:44:43 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/04/18/do-you-keep-your-passwords-in-a-document-file-on-your-computer/#comment-1925 Not long ago I could make a trip trough the neighberhood with my home-wirelessphone. I was able to call on 3 places for free without entering any password/accescode. This is exactly the same problem with any other technical security isue people just don't seem to get ( like wifi-security ). Luckely these things are (as time passes) made simpler for the "end user". <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> Bit still encryption, tuneling, etc is almost never enough. <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com" rel="nofollow">Tomshardware.com</a> had an <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/business/200408021/index.html#wall_of_sheep" rel="nofollow">interesting article</a> about <a href="http://www.defcon.org/" rel="nofollow">defcon</a> ( hacker convention ). This shows ( once again ) that you never can be secure enough... Not long ago I could make a trip trough the neighberhood with my home-wirelessphone. I was able to call on 3 places for free without entering any password/accescode. This is exactly the same problem with any other technical security isue people just don’t seem to get ( like wifi-security ). Luckely these things are (as time passes) made simpler for the “end user”.

Bit still encryption, tuneling, etc is almost never enough. Tomshardware.com had an interesting article about defcon ( hacker convention ). This shows ( once again ) that you never can be secure enough…

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