On 12/29/2011 06:45 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
<snip> > I like to use serial numbers from MB, HDD, etc., as passwords. I never
The one problem with this is that *if* the attacker has the slightest idea of the hardware, their task is vastly smaller. I trust, for example, that you don't use Dell's s/n/"express code"; Penguin, not having sold 5 gazillion servers, has the first few digits all the same, for years (they're being optimistic with s/n's that long).
<snip> mark
No. I got the idea from my first second-hand MB for NOC router/firewall, while I was on the grain silo needing to reinstall ClarkConnect on it (don't ask :-D ). You can use s/n from some old PC you have at your home, or discarded MB (or whatever).
Of course, using s/n's would be same as using some good random-generator script.