Hi, BOB KLAHN!   
   I read your message from 19.04.2014 00:02   
      
     BK> Just thinking about passwords earlier today. Seems we get all these   
     BK> warnings to construct complicated pass words no one will be able to   
     BK> guess.   
      
     BK> Now, I'm wondering, who would spend a lot of time to guess my   
     BK> password? If I had a lot of money, yes, but other than that?   
      
     BK> Now we have the Heart bleed data problem. Before that the Target   
     BK> data theft, and other data breeches. Seems the danger is not   
     BK> password guessing, but outright theft.   
      
     BK> So, just what is the danger from a simpler password, versus a   
     BK> complicated password, when their not going to guess it, but to   
     BK> steal it?   
      
     BK> Now this is especially true on sites where all you want to do is   
     BK> read something, like a magazine website. Why have to mix your   
     BK> capital and small letters with at least one number? It's not the   
     BK> NSA you know... and they have your number anyway.   
      
   I think that 95% of people now use password managers. They store your   
   passwords, and every password can be found and entered very quickly. If   
   5% of people don't use such programs they simply haven't heard of them.   
   -)   
      
   The length of the password means nothing for a password manager. You   
   enter 20 digits passwords as easy as short ones. The program stores the   
   encoded passwords base, as a rule on a movable disk. The program itself   
   can generate very complicated, long passwords. You don't need to   
   remember them. Why and how often should you change your passwords? It   
   depends on where you use a particular password. If a hacker has stolen   
   your password from your e-mail he can use your box as a spam sender and   
   some servers can block your address as if you are a spammer.   
      
   Bye, BOB!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   fido7.debate 2014   
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