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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dvorak
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:53:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1AYwOJ-000II3-0U@anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:43:12 +1100." <3FE78190.5040101@ajft.org>

Adrian Tritschler  wrote:

> I found myself stuck in a foreign internet cafe once, unable to login to 
> my web-based email system.  I had no idea what my password was, I knew 
> what the finger pattern was to type the password - but only on a QWERTY 
> keyboard.

In a similar vein, rog and I used to know someone who typed rapidly
but inaccurately. When choosing new passwords, he'd pick the password,
and then type it onto the screen a lot, quickly. Then he'd very carefully
enter the most common rendition as his password.

steve




  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-23 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-21 13:46 [9fans] simple keyboard question Hugo Santos
2003-12-21 17:07 ` Rob Pike
2003-12-21 21:00   ` [9fans] dvorak Michael Baldwin
2003-12-22  9:48     ` a
2003-12-22 14:21       ` Brantley Coile
2003-12-22 23:43         ` Adrian Tritschler
2003-12-23  6:38           ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-23 15:15           ` jpc
2003-12-23 16:28             ` Rob Pike
2003-12-23 20:07               ` Joel Salomon
2003-12-23 20:40                 ` Richard Miller
2003-12-23 23:53           ` Steve Kilbane [this message]
2003-12-21 21:14   ` [9fans] simple keyboard question Rasputin
2003-12-22  7:20   ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-21 22:14 ` Hugo Santos
2003-12-22  8:43   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-06-19 15:04 [9fans] Dvorak presotto
2000-06-18 21:07 Hiroki Tamakoshi
2000-06-18 20:10 James A. Robinson

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