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* Posts by RU37

7 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Oct 2014

City of birth? Why password questions are a terrible idea

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Re: collective inability to distinguish categories

My original reply was posted, after being partly redacted. Since it was a heady mixture of ad hominem and other things that might wake a moderator from their slumber, I'll save time by using good old trial and error, instead of trying to look it up. I will have a complete reply to your question about "trade secrets and negotiations" on my blog, which you can find online. My blog is called "igibud", and my post is called "What is Artisanal Duh". "Artisanal Duh" is not an insult on this forum. That is the name of the post, as well as the name of a domain I have registered.

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Ten years ago, it would make sense to talk about solving your security design question strictly using automated solutions. But now you have to think about your question of "providing sufficient security to a site full of people" in terms of DESIGN, and not TECH. What is it about your "site full of people" that is worth protecting? When you use the word "site" is that supposed to mean some internet domain thingy? I suspect that is what you mean, and I suspect that is the Achilles heel in your method of thinking. In 1998, and 2008. And today etc etc more and more cheap clueless automation. Hence this absurd article, which describes a world only some demented sicko of the Orwell/William Gibson variety could ever dream up.

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collective inability to distinguish categories

This forum is a vivid demonstration of modern human inability to make the distinction between a TECH PROBLEM and a DESIGN PROBLEM. The DESIGN PROBLEM here is the ubiquity of automated authentication in our daily lives. The problem with the way this necessary thing is being implemented is that it has become UBIQUITOUS and PERVASIVE in modern living, because there is some tech that makes it available cheaply. Authentication is important to have. For those things in our lives that are important.

So get over yourself, guy who sells condiments to restaurant chains. You don't need authentication tech in order to protect your data from your potential customers.

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An original(?) thought

Hey, you know-it-all tech-meisters (commentors, commentees and well-paid researchers) here's a thought for you: why not throttle back on your whole authentication thing? For crying out loud, even this dingaling website wants me to enter a password to put my comment on here. [Edit, naturally, I couldn't remember it from nine months ago the last time I put a comment here, so I needed to reset it. Christ.] If one wants to ask somebody a question about a freaking paper clip on line, there is some buttcrack cable plugging dingdong somewhere who figured out how to add an authentication module, who is getting in one's way, forcing one to dig into one's distant past about the color of one's date's corsage the first time one got laid, in order to find out about a bloody (bloody is brit for "gol-darn") paper clip.

No, that would mean LESS of something. We can't ever put a little though into it, if it means that ultimately we end up with LESS of something, can we?

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Ex-Soviet engines fingered after Antares ROCKET launch BLAST

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Re: @RU37

My former wife became a US citizen, so I guess my ex is now an ex-Czech. And she chucked Chuck, no check (cheque), new (non-Czech) mate, mate.

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The headline of this article is odd: "Ex-Soviet engines fingered after Antares ROCKET launch BLAST". It's obvious what you mean, but I'm trying to deconstruct "Ex-Soviet engines". The engines came from Soviets, so they once were Soviet engines. But they aren't Soviet engines any more. Or are they? If they're now Russian engines, then why not call them Russian engines?

Reminds me of my ex-wife who insisted on saying she was from "the former Czechoslovakia".

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