-------- Original Message -------- SUBJECT: Re: [GTALUG] "AI" on getting correct technical answers DATE: 2024-01-16 08:54 FROM: Ron / BCLUG via talk <talk@gtalug.org> TO: talk@gtalug.org Steve Petrie via talk wrote on 2024-01-16 05:41:
Ahhhh. SSO (single sign on) -- Is it an SSO offer, when my Firefox browser "helpfully" asks me if I would like it [my browser] to "remember" my login credentials ??
[rb] No, SSO where one signs in to a site they've never visited via their Google or GitHub account, for example. [sp]
I always respond in the NEGATIVE to these "helpful" browser offers.
So, you type in user and password every time you log into every site? I can't imagine the internet being very useful in that case, but everyone's got different risk tolerances, plus I may be misunderstanding your method of logging in to sites. [sp] No. You're not misunderstanding me. I obsessively type in my userid and super-long obsessively randomized password EVERY TIME I sign on my Firefox browser to my webmail service. In fact, I type in EVERYWHERE a super-long obsessively randomized password, EVERYWHERE A PASSWORD IS REQUIRED. (This absurdly over-the-top hyper-anal security-obsessive behaviour, is likely a happy combination of: (1) innate masochism, smoothly blended with (2) a tight-assed White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) obsessive detail-orientation, (3) sweetly encapsulated with the vestiges of an engineering education. The ridiculously obsessive webmail sign on, has become so habitual, it only takes me a few seconds, because I have perfectly memorized my very long and obsessively randomized password. Every such keyboard-laborious sign on, gives me a tiny thrill of pleasure, in knowing that my very long and obsessively randomized password is extremely spoof-proof. * * * * * * [rb] I guess I don't understand how having one's browser save username and (hopefully long) password combos gets "scare quotes" around "helpful". [sp] Kindly forgive my lack of mailing list etiquette knowledge. I didn't know that use of scare quotes conveyed such implications. My use of scare quotes was merely for emphasis. Hopefully, a use of bolding instead of scare quotes will improve my list etiquette skill rating :) --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk