On Thu, February 5, 2015 10:08 am, Always Learning wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 09:41 -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> >> > wac4140SoeTer'#621strAAt0918;@@ >> > >> > Gee thanks. I'll use it for root on every server ;-) > >> I know this is joke. Yet (in a slim chance someone out there can follow >> it >> with seriousness) I would strongly suggest: >> >> Don't do it. Don't use anything as any sort of password which was ever >> publicized in any shape. Putting it in a search line of any search >> engine, >> or it passing it over to any (but your own) password strength checker >> has >> (fair in my estimate!) chance of that to be logged, added into the >> database, etc. I almost which to yell: people use your brain ! ;-) > > Yes never ever, not once, let any person or any search engine etc. know > too much about your specific security arrangements. Generalise with > principles but always withhold the precise specifics. > > The nasty people out there are trying to steal your data and wreck your > systems. They have no scruples. There is a real cyber war going-on and > your systems are their targets. > >> I know, I know, everybody is reasonable, it is just I didn't have my >> coffee yet... > > Your logic is amazingly good for a coffee drinker. > No, I wasn't born here though I live here, so I don't take to my heart any jokes about people living in one of the colonies you lost ;-) Just stealing it from some movie I like. Still didn't have chance for my morning coffee yet (which I deserve: I was working hard all morning). Don't take me too seriously too, just get nice cup of tea (or wait till morning for it) ;-) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++