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My browser URL bar has received a few passwords, usually just a local computer password but occasionally something more sensitive. Makes me wonder about the per

by mutagen 12y ago

My browser URL bar has received a few passwords, usually just a local computer password but occasionally something more sensitive. Makes me wonder about the permissions my collection of browser addons has. I've also chucked a few passwords into IRC in times past. Fortunately non-essential stuff but really motivated me to sort out some better solutions (SSH keypairs, etc).

hunter2_ 12y ago
Plenty of times I've come back to my computer, typed my OS password expecting that it was locked, waited for my display's turn-on lag, and found that it wasn't locked (grace period). I type the password blind, but reserve the enter until I have visual feedback. At least typical IRC clients don't transmit until hitting enter. Browser omnibars and Javascript can send away every keystroke as it happens. Now I want to search all my Google Docs for my passwords -- let alone other stupidity I don't care to share.
- r00fus 12y ago
  Is it me or is your userid ironically apropos to this discussion?
  - hunter2_ 12y ago
    Heh, throwaway. Posting an admission that I might've shared my passwords, using the username associated with those passwords, seemed foolish.
    - e12e 12y ago
      For those not familiar: http://www.bash.org/?244321 http://www.bash.org/?244321
- lostlogin 12y ago
  A long time ago in a lecture hall far far away a head of school was giving us a pre-exam talk of some kind. It was too all health science students. As he talked he logged into the system. With the projector showing what he was doing he missed the tab key and typed his username and password into the username field. I had a look round the room and no one else seemed to have noticed. On his desktop sat a folder titled "Exam papers" or something similar.
  - redblacktree 12y ago
    Are you going to tell us the rest of the story?

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My browser URL bar has received a few passwords, usually just a local computer password but occasionally something more sensitive. Makes me wonder about the per

by mutagen 12y ago

hunter2_ 12y ago
Plenty of times I've come back to my computer, typed my OS password expecting that it was locked, waited for my display's turn-on lag, and found that it wasn't locked (grace period). I type the password blind, but reserve the enter until I have visual feedback. At least typical IRC clients don't transmit until hitting enter. Browser omnibars and Javascript can send away every keystroke as it happens. Now I want to search all my Google Docs for my passwords -- let alone other stupidity I don't care to share.
- r00fus 12y ago
  Is it me or is your userid ironically apropos to this discussion?
  - hunter2_ 12y ago
    Heh, throwaway. Posting an admission that I might've shared my passwords, using the username associated with those passwords, seemed foolish.
    - e12e 12y ago
      For those not familiar: http://www.bash.org/?244321 http://www.bash.org/?244321
- lostlogin 12y ago
  A long time ago in a lecture hall far far away a head of school was giving us a pre-exam talk of some kind. It was too all health science students. As he talked he logged into the system. With the projector showing what he was doing he missed the tab key and typed his username and password into the username field. I had a look round the room and no one else seemed to have noticed. On his desktop sat a folder titled "Exam papers" or something similar.
  - redblacktree 12y ago
    Are you going to tell us the rest of the story?