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Ward Christensen has died (BBS and XMODEM fame)

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josephwebster
12 days ago
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Ward, who was actually developing zmodem at the time, helped me with my senior project in engineering (a resilient file transfer protocol). When I asked him how to characterize noise on a telco line, in his typical fashion told me that when I figure that out it would be a great EE PhD thesis topic.
Denver, CO, USA
fxer
22 days ago
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Gonna have to rewatch the BBS Documentary with him in it
Bend, Oregon
JayM
24 days ago
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:(
Atlanta, GA
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NIST Recommends Some Common-Sense Password Rules

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NIST’s second draft of its “SP 800-63-4“—its digital identify guidelines—finally contains some really good rules about passwords:

The following requirements apply to passwords:

  1. lVerifiers and CSPs SHALL require passwords to be a minimum of eight characters in length and SHOULD require passwords to be a minimum of 15 characters in length.
  2. Verifiers and CSPs SHOULD permit a maximum password length of at least 64 characters.
  3. Verifiers and CSPs SHOULD accept all printing ASCII [RFC20] characters and the space character in passwords.
  4. Verifiers and CSPs SHOULD accept Unicode [ISO/ISC 10646] characters in passwords. Each Unicode code point SHALL be counted as a signgle character when evaluating password length.
  5. Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types) for passwords.
  6. Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT require users to change passwords periodically. However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.
  7. Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT permit the subscriber to store a hint that is accessible to an unauthenticated claimant.
  8. Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT prompt subscribers to use knowledge-based authentication (KBA) (e.g., “What was the name of your first pet?”) or security questions when choosing passwords.
  9. Verifiers SHALL verify the entire submitted password (i.e., not truncate it).

Hooray.

News article.Shashdot thread.

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josephwebster
31 days ago
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Since passwords aren't going away any time soon this is a swell set of guidelines.
Denver, CO, USA
ReadLots
30 days ago
These are good.
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President Venn Diagram

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Hard to imagine political rhetoric more microtargeted at me than 'I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It's just something about those three circles.'
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josephwebster
105 days ago
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fxer
106 days ago
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ChristianDiscer
106 days ago
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Mickey Mouse for president? This classic diagram looks more like Mickey, oh I'm sorry, Minnie Mouse!
SimonHova
106 days ago
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I love that this is a fact about our future president.
Greenlawn, NY
matthiasgoergens
106 days ago
It's possible, but seems unlikely. At least in the 2024 election.
steelhorse
106 days ago
You really think Randall is going to be our future president? Are yard signs available yet? I'll take twenty.
gordol
106 days ago
Let's make it happen!

Bracket Symbols

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’"‘”’" means "I edited this text on both my phone and my laptop before sending it"
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josephwebster
125 days ago
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125 days ago
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jlvanderzwan
125 days ago
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Is the implication that all French people are animorphs?
iustinp
125 days ago
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He he :)
Switzerland

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - God

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Click here to go see the bonus panel!

Hovertext:
This is why He stopped answering prayers.


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fxer
149 days ago
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NOOOOOO…and a goat you say?
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Cursive Letters

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𝓘 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓬𝓪𝓹𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓛 𝓲𝓼 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓫𝓪𝓫𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓾𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮, 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓬𝓪𝓼𝓮 𝓺 𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓼𝓸 𝓪 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻.
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josephwebster
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