-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2014-08-12 at 20:11 +0200, jdd wrote:
brute force is very difficult to use on most system where login is trial limited. My bank needs me to go to office in person if I fail three time.
Mine too. But... they force that password to be 8 numbers. And forcing you to go in person if you make a mistake is a nuisance when you are not on your home town, or worse, abroad. A relative of mine found, when on a trip abroad, that his credit card was suddenly rejected at sites. Then he also got a phone call or an email from home, because the bank had called there, asking for him to call back. This message took some time to be relayed back to him, who then had to place an expensive very long distance phone call to his bank... who then said that they had deactivated the card because of "unusual activity", and that they were sorry. Heck, he was a trip abroad! Of course the activity was unusual, but perfectly legitimate! I don't remember if they managed to reactivate the card without getting a new one - which on a trip abroad it is very difficult to do, or if he had to borrow money from his fellow travelers. Banks have very funny security policies. Yesterday gmail asked me to verify my identity by SMS code, because of something suspicious. Maybe because I was using a different ISP, or because I was using "midori" as browser, the one that comes with the openSUSE XFCE rescue image, instead of the common firefox.
protection have to be as good as necessary, no more
Yes... On the other hand (back to the OP question), I would like a small text editor, capable of using strong encription (say, PGP), for editing in memory relatively small files, like one used to keep my passwords. I would not like somebody stealing my laptop, and getting the list of my passwords, extra. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAlPqt7cACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UshQCYjgb0gneiz2aU1a2PcsA8ofC3 BQCfTz1HqqWOTsDuW+Jv4l3T7p2FOvU= =FER4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org