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Posted by Steve Riley [MSFT] on October 26, 2007, 5:45 am
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Several colleagues use their wallets to protect their pieces of paper.
I use my smart phone because I'm often having to use many different
computers. My choice to use my smart phone is purely out of convenience. I'm
not opposed to the category of products that KeePass represents.
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Steve Riley
steve.riley@microsoft.com
http://blogs.technet.com/steriley http://www.protectyourwindowsnetwork.com
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:06:20 -0700, Steve Riley [MSFT] wrote:
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>> Nevertheless, my point was the second paragraph. Personally, I prefer to
>> keep the passwords off the computer. For some folks, paper works fine. I
>> use
>> a password-protected list application on my smart phone.
>>
>> --
>> Steve Riley
>> steve.riley@microsoft.com
>> http://blogs.technet.com/steriley
>> http://www.protectyourwindowsnetwork.com
>
> Steve, I'll take your word for it but I have never had one person who
> used paper to be able to develop any scheme that was sufficiently safe.
> The smart phone idea seems unneccesarily impractical in view of the
> number of ways you can encrypt and launch URLs, etc from a program like
> KeePass. Or a Cryptainer LE where you could keep a spreadsheet.
>
> What is it, I'm curious, that keeps you distant from the use of these
> alternatives?
> --
> "You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself"
> Ken Thompson "Reflections on Trusting Trust"
> http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
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