Posts by Stephen Judd
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One problem is that "lesser" accounts often give access to the information you need to successfully use social engineering on an important one.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Lilith __,
Yes, I think Kyle is mathematically wrong, even given his assumptions. If someone wants to work it out, the formula is here.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Russell Brown,
It’s interesting that the Newton OS paradigm was dumped
I think we could make a case that iOS is a spiritual descendant from a UI POV. It's a long time since I had quality time with a Newton, mind.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Kyle, Lucy: there is this assumption that the attacker knows a significant portion of users have simple consistently capitalised phrases in English as their passphrase. I don't think that's anywhere near true now, and I doubt it will be any time soon. I suppose I've outed MYSELF in this thread, if anyone is trying to brute force one of my accounts; but then I've gone for something a bit more challenging than a string of space-separated lower case words.
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JT: do you really think that's all Dalziel is doing? I think you are being a bit selective.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Well, Pagani got punted from Labour. He wasn't offered as a spokesblogger. I regard it as just more evidence of Tory media that Farrar is blogging on both Stuff and the NZ Herald, and the only counterweight Fairfax have provided is Pagani. I don't see that as Labour's fault.
I agree that how National is failing Christchurch is something that could and should be an issue for Labour as a whole, even the opposition as a whole, not just local MPs.
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Field Theory: What to watch, in reply to Hadyn Green,
I do believe that is exactly what I said
Click the link, I think you missed Megan's point.
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Apropos passwords that comprise sequences of real words -- I confess I do that. But I punctuate and use numbers.
I think something like this:
Goodness! Swiddening 5 hilltops causes Weltschmerz?
draws on a pretty big search space.
I used "swiddening" because it's a word I learned yesterday. I do think that's a reason why working vocabulary limits aren't the problem Lucy thinks they might be. I see no reason why I'll ever use "swiddening" more than once a decade, but it's now a VERY memorable word for me.
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That was the conventional wisdom about Muldoon as long as Rowling was opposition leader.
And it was true, too, into his 3rd term. It needed Lange and a series of blunders on Muldoon’s part to make Muldoon vulnerable.
My feeling is simply that when a person is genuinely liked, if you attack them, people feel annoyed with you and defensive about the person they like. There is an emotional logic that goes “Only a person with bad qualities could like another person with bad qualities – if so and so had bad qualities, that would mean I do too, unthinkable, how dare you!” Just like when you criticise someone’s new partner and they turn on you. And then couple that with the phenomenon that direct contradiction tends to strengthen already-held beliefs in most people.
You can only move on the beloved person when there are already doubts about them or they have disgraced themselves. Or, as with Lange, if you have a sufficiently compelling persona in your own right. You can only contradict successfully if you can find a way for the person with the wrong belief to maintain their self-esteem.
I get the impression, possibly wrongly, that media treatment of Brownlee is starting to turn though. I see opportunities whether Key is forced to defend him or disown him.
That means acknowledging Key’s political strengths, and demolishing them, one by one.
Concretely, what would that mean? Eg, what do you think is a strength, and what is your proposal for demolishing it?
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sacha,
Letting McCully off the hook for that debacle by making it sound like Key’s responsible is stupid politics when National’s lacklustre cabinet is recognised as a weakness
I don't see it that way at all. Key's personal appeal is a huge part of National's advantage. Attacking him directly is fruitless, I agree, but tying him to the dummies and villains he has for mates has promise.