OT--How good are your reading skills?

I stumbled on the first 2 lines for about 5 seconds and then it came to me and I whizzed right through the rest of it.

BlackSpinner wrote:

palerider wrote:unfortunately, the password guessers all speak 'leet these days.

I use passwordmaker and let it make up good, hard passwords... the beauty of it, is that it's an algorithm that takes a single master password,

passwords like H[3LJ'G{VfIk, which are pretty much unguessable and would take ages to crack, even with todays computers.

Back where I worked in the 90's they had one and regenerated the passwords every 4 weeks and all the passwords were posted on people's monitors with Postit notes.
A password which you can't remember is useless. Besides which most systems lock you out after 3 tries.

the cool thing with passwordmaker is that you don't have to remember H[3LJ'G{VfIk, you remember your master password, and let passwordmaker handle the hard ones.

palerider wrote: the cool thing with passwordmaker is that you don't have to remember H[3LJ'G{VfIk, you remember your master password, and let passwordmaker handle the hard ones.

That assumes you are on only one machine. We have 4 plus a tablet (actually we have many more but those are the ones that still work, though the TRS80 technically is still a working machine). And my main one runs under Ubuntu.

Lastpass can be used on all of them :;

https://lastpass.com/

windows ..... linux.... mac.... android

grayghost4 wrote:Lastpass can be used on all of them :;

https://lastpass.com/

windows ..... linux.... mac.... android

But don't use it!!!!

http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/15/technol ... word-hack/

Hacked

SleepyWabbit wrote:I had a little trouble with the 7s as Ts, but everything else fell into place.

That's interesting. I read it quickly without knowing what was substituted for any letter. I believe that is the proper way to read it and it is the point of the exercise.

hacked and fixed so might be better than it was last week.
I am not worried .. changed master password and will watch all accounts .... like everyone should do all the time.

Those were fun, thanks for posting GG4

BlackSpinner wrote:

palerider wrote: the cool thing with passwordmaker is that you don't have to remember H[3LJ'G{VfIk, you remember your master password, and let passwordmaker handle the hard ones.

That assumes you are on only one machine. We have 4 plus a tablet (actually we have many more but those are the ones that still work, though the TRS80 technically is still a working machine). And my main one runs under Ubuntu.

well, no, you put passwordmaker on all of them, and you can copy the settings file, or just set up the same 'recipe' of what to do, and if you put in the same master pw on each computer/tablet, each one will generate the same unique pw for a site as your other computers/tablets.

my main computers are ubuntu too.

there are versions for mozilla, javascript,click, opera, chrome, iphone, android, desktop native and java, yahoo! widget, command line, php, mac, python, a web based one, and something called maemo.

passwordmaker.org

you're on your own with the trs80

postitnote wrote:

grayghost4 wrote:Lastpass can be used on all of them :;

https://lastpass.com/

windows ..... linux.... mac.... android

But don't use it!!!!

http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/15/technol ... word-hack/

Hacked

and, that's why I like passwordmaker... it never stores the passwords you use on sites anywhere... so there's nothing to be hacked.

Some fonts make the letter finding easier.

cancun wrote:.... can't remember shit!

We refer to that as CRS disease.

Julie wrote:Tip - it's easier to find the 'N' if you look up and down a couple of rows at a time... pretend you're reading Chinese.

For me it's easy to find the letters within a second if I blur the letters and look at then as a whole and not a bunch of letters. Then the oddity pops out

Looking closely is useless.
What works is just scanning--sort of reading with Zen.

I prefer to read with Sally...

Who's Zen?