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Listed below are comments made by ianonline between Thursday, 11th June 2009 and Thursday, 16th July 2009.

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The Twitter hack and the cloud 00:57am on 16 Jul 2009 I am registered on over a thousand websites and most of them have a password such as "862U6866642k" which was randomly generated for me just now using software and not used anywhere as far as I know. There has been no typing of the password at any point, just copy and paste, which foils any keylogger software should there be some.

For those services where I do require a memorable password, I tend to pick a random word not connected to family, pets, friends or interests and sometimes add a number to part of it. The 1000+ randomly generated passwords are stored in a 128-Keys encrypted database on my computer, which is a Mac, a change from Windows made partly for the security benefits.
Is the web's amateur hour over? 06:35am on 11 Jun 2009 There are amateurs and professionals existing in many arenas in sports, photography, jewellery making and much more. All of these have existed for years and both thrive regardless of the internet. Often the differentiators are skills and the degree of commitment.

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