password

[tokyoi at mac.com]

On 10 Feb 2007, at 6:53, Tim wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 09:30 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> Don't forget sound as well.
>> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/09/snooping_on_tex.html
>
> Very old technique, much older than that blog credits it for.  Spy
> agencies did that in the 60's, that I've read about, with telex and
> encoding machines.
>
> I wonder how many people actually say out loud what they're typing as
> they type in their passwords?  ;-)

And the number of people who have chosen

********

as their password beggars belief.

Ian A