[Yr7-10it] RE: passwords

Tue May 12 08:51:32 EST 2009

Hey Ros...its a *********secret!

Kent.

Kent Beveridge,
I.C.T. co-ordinator
St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
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From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Ros Meadows
Sent: Tue 5/12/2009 12:36 AM
To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] RE: passwords

I don't get all this talk about passwords! Whenever I see someone typing in their password they just type **********

Cheers
Ros

Kent Beveridge wrote: 

	A word with a number for me and a few colleagues here...

	Kent Beveridge,
	I.C.T. co-ordinator
	St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
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	From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Jim Bunn
	Sent: Mon 5/11/2009 11:32 AM
	To: 'Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List'
	Subject: RE: [Yr7-10it] RE: passwords 

	I use a long word, or two words together, with some capitals interspersed,
	and ended with numbers representing the date. That way I know when I should
	make a new one.

	Jim

	Jim Bunn

	Technology Coordinator
	Hampton Park Secondary College
	8795 9400
	CCAI CCNA ITE1

	bunn.jim.c at edumail.vic.gov.au

	-----Original Message-----
	From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au
	[mailto:yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of stephen at melbpc.org.au
	Sent: Monday, 11 May 2009 10:15 AM
	To: oz-teachers at rite.ed.qut.edu.au; oztl_net at listserv.csu.edu.au
	Cc: offtopic at edulists.com.au; yr7-10it at edulists.com.au
	Subject: [Yr7-10it] RE: passwords

	Hi all,

		According to The Age, the New Scientist magazine recently advises
		that, for your passwords, people should, 'pick two unrelated words,
		and join them with a punctuation mark.' Their example given,

	'magpie/towerblock'

		They assert such passwords are memorable while also difficult to guess.

	For possible interest and assistance re passwords here are the responses
	from our Ed colleagues, across education lists, and, in order of receipt:

	--

	For secure passwords I use a pattern on the keyboard.  For instance
	bhuYGV567 - Just remember where it starts and whether you have caps on or
	not.  The computations are endless and difficult for hackers to guess.
	Terry

	--

	I have certain phrases that are easy to remember and i simply use them as a
	mnemonic, taking the first letter from each word...  for example "The
	Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog" would become "TQBFJOTLD"    Most
	passwords should have upper and lower case and numbers, so just find a
	phrase that works with that...  "The 12 days of Christmas" would become
	"T12doC"  Car number plates make good passwords too.  Chris PS, none of
	those passwords above are actually mine, just in case you were wondering
	:-)

	--

	This year I found an algorithm to generate new passwords for our Novell
	network. They consisted of four letters that read to create random and
	obscure word. I just added two random numbers to the end. This year nobody
	came back to me asking to change the password. The thought of just making
	two words is a splendid suggestion for new users. :-)

	The DEECD cases admin system mandates the use of passwords with numbers,
	case elements and other cryptic components. Tighter security that users find
	hostile to their memory will suffer from the danger that they will defeat
	the password by secretly recording the password on a location near the
	computer. I have seen this done on countless occasions. As one chap pointed
	out, it made as much as much sense as asking him to memorise (Pi) to xxx
	places (something I did a long time ago when I had too much time on my
	hands)  Regards  Roland

	--

	At my school I give every student a password that consists of a three letter
	word, a dash, another three letter word and a number eg rub-won9 I once
	typed out 150 three letter words I found from the Internet. I used Excel to
	concatenate the four bits into one password.  Cheers  David

	--

	Two completely unrelated words....hmmm....

	windows&works
	logies+entertainment
	richmond-win
	NRL<IQ

	Yeah - I can see what they're getting at, fiendishly clever. Endless
	possibilities. Cameron

	--

	AHHH, Now I understand ......

	Military/intelligence
	Common/sense

	*giggle*

	Colin

	--

	(and, regarding a reference for the original item/post)

	Well, dont have a url, but, it was a one paragraph item in the "Loose
	Change' column by one James Lockington, on page 3 of the "Money Talks"
	section of the "Money" centre liftout section of The Age, Wed May 6th
	2009 edition. I just basically typed up the entire one paragraph item.
	Cheers, Stephen

	--

	Thanks,
	Stephen
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