Security

Tip of the week: useful passwords

by Matthew Stibbe on September 25, 2006

I seem to spend most of my day entering passwords; for Windows, for websites, sometimes just to open documents and ZIP files. My wife has a great tip for passwords. She uses them as reminders. For example, “eatsomefruit” or “drinkmorewater” or “gooutrunning.” Not only are these passwords easy to remember and longer than the average [...]

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Bank error in your favour: collect 70 billion roubles

by Matthew Stibbe on August 30, 2006

This never happens to me. A chap in Russia deposited some money in an ATM and instead of crediting his account with 2,000 roubles, he got over 2 billion. He kept doing it until he had 70 billion. As reported on the English Russia blog (by way of the Risks Forum Digest email) I would [...]

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