Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!bbn.com!aoa!carl From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: any review of password apps? Keywords: password Message-ID: <1506@aoa.UUCP> Date: 17 Apr 91 12:10:01 GMT References: Reply-To: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft) Distribution: usa Organization: Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. Lines: 28 In article dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) writes: [asking for password apps....] >usually is "keep confidential stuff on floppy disks" but they're >demanding more; my concern is not to use something that will be >a fantastic headache when passwords are forgotten or when disks >have problems. What suggestions can you give? x Sorry for the semi-flame, but What the heck is the point of this stupidity???? If "they" want to protect their stuff w/ a password, "they" ought at least to be mature enuff to either remember a simple password or shut up and quit whining if they are incapable of remembering it. The whole point of a password is to protect a file. If you can get around it easily, it's useless. You might as well start each file out with a page that goes: "Please dont' read this ^L " flame off. Lock up your confidential stuff. Write your password down at home. -- Alix' and Luke's Dad ( Carl Witthoft @ Adaptive Optics Associates) {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!aoa!carl OR {wjh12,mit-vax}!bbn!aoa!carl 54 CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge,MA 02140 617-864-0201 ##I know it's true: I saw it on TV##