Word: passwords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seconds before moving at a newly green traffic light, or as we wring our hands when someone (heaven forbid) has checked their inbox but has not responded to our messages. We have become so paranoid about physical space that we screen calls. We finger-stalk. We struggle to remember password after password, half-recognizing that our information--our data, our ideas--could suddenly vanish if either we or our computers have a lapse in memory...
...disagree that these commands should be removed. By disabling commands, one reduces the ability of the network to function as intended. In addition, one can introduce a security hole in the system. For example, a hacker figures out my password and logs in to my account to run amok in the network. I use the "last" command to see when I last logged in, and I notice a location or time that I know I did not login. (One caveat--"last" only works on the current machine, for example, login4, so to be thorough, one must...
...raid was the result of a months-long FBI investigation after a graduatestudent at the Yale Geology lab noticed thatLasaga's computer password had been used todownload child pornography from the Internet lastsummer. Someone else saw him transfer pictures ofnude boys and boys having sex with men onto hisSaybrook computer...
Hence, the more heavily encrypted a password file is, the more difficult it will be for a hacker to be able to compromise...
Once connected, all the hacker has to do is take the password file and unencrypt it using a cracker program and a dictionary maker. With these programs in hand, the hacker can simply run them on the password file to get an unencrypted version of the password file...