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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>That made me think of Spaceballs:<br><br><b>Dark Helmet</b>: So the combination is one, two, three, four, five. That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!<br><i>[President Skroob walks in.]</i><br><b>Skroob</b>: What's the combination?<br><b>Colonel Sandurz</b>: One, two, three, four, five.<br><b>Skroob</b>: One, two, three, four, five? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!<br><i>[Colonel Sandurz and Dark Helmet give each other a look.]</i><br><b>Skroob</b>: Prepare Spaceball 1 for immediate departure!<br><b>Colonel Sandurz</b>: Yes sir.<br><b>Skroob</b>: And change the combination on my luggage!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Ale <ale-bounces@ale.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Tweedy via Ale<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 6, 2025 6:50 PM<br><b>To:</b> ale@ale.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Robert Tweedy <robert@robert-tweedy.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Password security<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Nor be like the first Linux system I ever encountered when I was a kid (a display system w/GUI in some small Marietta computer store I now forget the name of). The interaction went something like this:<br><br>Me: *sees usernames on login screen's list* Huh, "root" is a funny name.<br>*enters "root" into password prompt & clicks "Login"*<br>Me: This is neat; wonder what this is? *proceeds to click other stuff accessible from the KDE 2.x launcher menus until it was time to leave, during which at some point "reboot" was clicked*...</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 11/6/25 16:35, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Maybe don't use the organization name as the video surveillance system password like THEY DID AT THE LOUVRE!!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><sitting in stunned silence><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><br></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br><i><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a></i><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Ale mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>