Who on earth is going to spend £22 on that tat? The printing, stitching and leather are junk going from the pictures. I don't even care about the security implications when I'm so shocked at the quality.
Leatherbound analogue password manager: For the hipster who doesn't mind losing everything
News reaches us that will leave password management outfits quaking in their boots. The Conran Shop has a solution for forgetful users, and it is a snip at a mere £22. Users need to remember a bewildering array of passwords just to get through an average day, which can lead to some pretty shoddy practices as revealed in the …
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Monday 9th July 2018 19:08 GMT Mage
Security features
A £2 address book is a GOOD idea. Website/service, email, user, password etc.
NEVER take it out of premises.
Never EVER put in laptop bag.
Do put in safe or with Will etc, in case you are knocked down crossing road, stroke, heart attack or assassinated.
It's actually good security practice to have a secured hard copy of all security information. Maybe even a second off site secure location.
Not though in your jacket, open plan office or laptop bag.
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Monday 9th July 2018 12:41 GMT Flywheel
"Expertly designed and crafted by Fabriano"
*sigh* It's
artisanalArtisanal! The seemingly irregular nature of the stitching only serves to emphasise the handmade quality of the item. The faux-puerile nature of the blocked text lends an air of uniqueness to each and every item. John Bull would be proud!Apparently.
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Monday 9th July 2018 13:48 GMT Timmy B
Re: fashion victims
"where 'more expensive = must be better'"
If that's the case I can make the best one. I actually do make things out of leather, including bags, pouches, book covers, etc. Anyone who wants one can order one from me. For really good quality leather I can do you one for £200. If you want one with traditionally tanned buckskin £350. Any takers?
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Monday 9th July 2018 13:56 GMT Chris G
Re: fashion victims
Traditionally tanned buckskin was softened by Indian maidens chewing the hides to soften them, can you guarantee that is the case with your product?
Photos of said maidens chewing your buckskin or it hasn't happened.
I make pretty good journal covers from leather to order, I can guarantee they haven't been chewed by me.
Average price for hand stitched, oiled leather €50-€60.
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Monday 9th July 2018 14:00 GMT Timmy B
Re: fashion victims
"Traditionally tanned buckskin was softened by Indian maidens chewing the hides to soften them, can you guarantee that is the case with your product?"
Sorry. You've listened to Hollywood and not read your history books. :) I do a variety, from bark to brain tan and various other processes that I'll not bore people with. All are hand or frame softened depending on animal and hide thickness / quality.
I was having a giggle with the price and you quote is far better but I do tend to carve patterns into mine and that will inflate the price, of course. And one done in my buckskin with actual sinew stitching is going to clear £100.
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Monday 9th July 2018 14:09 GMT Andy Non
Re: fashion victims
@Timmy B
I'll take one. It must be better than the post-it note on my computer with my TSB online banking username of Imawally and password of qwerty-123456. You might as well take the money out of my account by direct bank transfer, I haven't got time to do it myself, too busy giving a security seminar this afternoon.
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Tuesday 10th July 2018 02:10 GMT Gritzwally Philbin
Re: fashion victims
Oh hell.. well that's it for me and my 2 dollar spiral bound blank-page notebook I bought in 1998. 20 years on and it's not been nicked, copied or dropped in the toilet (my God, who pulls out their password book on the toilet? Unnatural, that is..)
The biggest drawback is that over the years I've pulled pages to make shopping lists with and the poor notebook is running out of room.. Though I DO still have my AudioGalaxy password and username jotted down. The thing that makes you think the most however, are the number of old e-mail addresses and contacts with folks I knew that have died over the years. Hmm.
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Monday 9th July 2018 21:05 GMT Gene Cash
Deckeled
Speaking of "Artisanal"... I learned a new word recently: "deckel" which means "we couldn't be bothered to finish the book and cut the paper properly"
I ordered a book, and I thought I'd gotten a screwed up copy, because none of the pages were cut square. I went back to Amazon and found out I had the "fancy" deckled copy and I'd paid extra for this "privilege" and so I gave it a 1-star review for this wonderful feature.
It made reading the book a nightmare, because it was REALLY difficult to turn the individual pages.
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Monday 9th July 2018 11:53 GMT Anonymous Coward
This is actually a good thing.
It makes the low-hanging fruit that bit lower, which makes things safer for those of us who aren't so intellectually challenged.
It's basically a big sign saying both 'here are my passwords' and 'I've got too much money' (why else spend so much money on a notepad?)
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Monday 9th July 2018 16:36 GMT caffeine addict
Companies should give them out to their users. Anyone found to have used it for the intended purposes just fired from a canon.
Similar (ish) recent job I had here.
PM : The website for users to access HR. Add a button to print the page.
Me : But... why? The browser does that.
PM : Not all users will know that.
Me : Okay. So what about if I make it so that everyone who presses that button has their contact details forwarded to HR for not being able to use a web browser?
PM : No.
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Monday 9th July 2018 12:38 GMT Shadow Systems
Re: User-generated obfuscation
There is an easy form of exactly that, as long as you can remember the order of certain glyphs.
Imagine a 3x3 grid like a tic tac toe board. In the upper left corner you place a single dot in the corner. In the top center you place a dot in the middle of the space. In the top right you place a dot in the corner. In the center left square you place a dot in the middle; in the center square the dot goes in the center; in the center right square the dot goes in the middle. In the lower left square the dot goes in the corner, in the bottom middle square the dot goes in the middle, & in the bottom right the dot goes in the corner. Now consider each square one letter of the alphabet, in this case A to I. Repeat the tic tac toe board with squiggles, x's, or even smiley faces until you have enough for all 26 letters & 10 numbers. Now you just have to remember in which order you created each grid (I suggest using 1 dot for the first, 2 for the second, 3 for the third & so on), that way you can simply look at which direction the square faces, at what doodle is inside the square, & do the mental math to figure out what letter/number it represents. You've just created a cypher that very few folks will be able to decode easily (if at all), much less on the fly from memory.
You can use that method to write passwords, using a line over the glyph to mean an uppercase letter or to multiply the digit by some value of ten (although Roman Numerals are a greater PITA than just writing out the numbers themselves).
My friends & I used to do this all the time back in school. We'd leave each other notes, leave single glyphs to confuse folks on sticky notes stuck to things, & generally have fun throwing folks for a loop.
I challenged one to write his English homework in code, he retaliated by daring me to write an entire book report the same way. I refused only because my teacher had no sense of humour, but I made up for it by writing a story that way instead. He laughed his ass off when he saw the 50 pages of single spaced, college ruled binder paper covered in hieroglyphics. =-)p
I kept a pocket flip cover notepad in my pocket for years, a tiny pencil in the spine, so I could take notes when an idea struck me. Putting them into code was a good way to make sure my parents didn't know what trouble I was getting into. (Had they been able to decode it, they would have grounded me so fast it would have made my head spin!) So do something along those same lines to keep your own notes, including passwords. The chances that some random stranger finding the pad & being able to read it are low, & knowing what's written there belongs to *you* is almost nonexistent. (Unless you have a mailing address label for yourself stuck inside the cover so they know where to return it, but that's another story.) =-)
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Monday 9th July 2018 13:15 GMT Woza
Re: User-generated obfuscation
There's another way to use a 3x3 grid - Iain M. Banks' Marain (http://trevor-hopkins.com/banks/a-few-notes-on-marain.html).
But I'm confused by "You've just created a cypher that very few folks will be able to decode easily (if at all)" - isn't that just a substitution cipher? While strong passwords should render frequency analysis unprofitable, relying on that to keep secrets written in your native language seems potentially risky, depending on the audience. Or am I missing something?
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Monday 9th July 2018 12:12 GMT Captain Scarlet
Re: Name > website / Phone No. > password
Yeah I recommend using a standard A5 paper book to anyone I think will be confused by a password manager.
I recommend remember your email and bank passwords and put anything else in the book (As a password can easily be reset if you can access your email account)
Try to keep it in alphabetical order and use one page per site.
Stating the book is for passwords is a bit silly, if its in the home in a draw hopefully it will be missed if burgled.
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Monday 9th July 2018 16:40 GMT Captain Scarlet
Re: Captain Scarlet: Name > website / Phone No. > password
Not being a Mac user I'm not sure. KeePass has an unofficial port but I don't know how well that works. Any MacOSX users want to recommend?
A safe to store the book in I'm not 100% sure on, if someone breaks into the safe I think they would take everything in it including the book.
Have a thumbs up for the draw comment, yes I meant drawer.
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Monday 9th July 2018 20:55 GMT JLV
>pwd manager for Mac OS
1Password is OK.
Likes:
- it works
- fairly comprehensive and seems serious about providing a good product. they've been caught out in some of the password manager audits, like others, but they patched promptly.
- you don't HAVE to store stuff in the cloud. if not, no syncing, but that's ok
- you don't have to use browser integration and you can keep it closed most of the time.
- multiplatform.
Dislikes:
- data file is stored in/mediated by macos Keychain. That's probably an overall positive, but worries me about what would happen if the mac dies and Time Machine doesn't save the day. I'd rather export it encrypted somewhere, only needing the app and the master password to restore. Now, IIRC, I did manage to find the file somewhere and do just that, but it's not well documented and needlessly obfuscated and complex to do so.
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Tuesday 10th July 2018 08:47 GMT Wensleydale Cheese
Re: >pwd manager for Mac OS
"1Password is OK."
"- you don't HAVE to store stuff in the cloud. if not, no syncing, but that's ok"
You can sync without the cloud but it's a bit fiddly.
In the Likes section I'll add that it has a record type of Software Licence. I've got all mine stashed in 1Password, nicely in one place.
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