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sjfcontrol wrote:All this just goes to prove that passwords are an outdated (and out-technologied) concept. For true security we should all be using public/private certificates to prove our identities. Lets see them crack that in 6-minutes

IIRC, those are only secure because the numbers involved are so big that it takes so long to factor them that it's not practical to try. As soon as computers speed way up or somebody figures out a better algorithm, they'll be easy to crack. I think.

sjfcontrol wrote:By the way, is the NSA brute-forcing passwords in their "high-performance video boards"?

I'm not aware of any evidence one way or the other, but what's to stop them?

The Annoyed Man wrote:you guys DO realize what it is going to take to trim this leviathan's claws, don't you? Apparently, there aren't enough votes to do so, so elections won't do it. I am advocating nothing. I'm merely point out the facts.

We haven't had an election since the NSA story broke. Let's see what happens in 2014 before saying elections can't fix it.