Displaying 6 results from an estimated 6 matches for "prophylaxis".
2015 Jul 29
0
Fedora change that will probably affect RHEL
...> So this push to depend on stronger passwords just exposes how "immune
> compromised" we are in these dark ages of computer security.
While true, that doesn?t tell us that it is a good idea to allow weak passwords.
If you will allow me to return to biology, it?s like saying that prophylaxis is a bad idea because it points out how imperfect our immune systems are. Stop covering your face when you sneeze, stop using condoms, stop going to the dentist: we need stronger humans, so let?s evolve some!
> There are
> overwhelmingly worse side effects of password dependency than
> i...
2015 Jul 29
2
Fedora change that will probably affect RHEL
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Nathan Duehr <denverpilot at me.com> wrote:
>> Equating this to ?vaccination? is a huge stretch.
>
> Why?
It's not just an imperfect analogy it really doesn't work on closer scrutiny.
Malware itself is not a good analog to antigens. Vaccinations provide
2010 Oct 03
1
Encoding problem in Rd file
Dear all,
I have a problem with an Rd file containing French accentuated
characters. I have uploaded the file at
http://filex.cirad.fr/get?k=cjW7lImMaNC6Ci2vX0H
I have declared
Encoding: latin1
in the package DESCRIPTION file
and I have added
\encoding{latin1}
in the header of the Rd file.
When I compile the package manual, I have LaTeX errors:
! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:?F
2015 Jul 29
5
Fedora change that will probably affect RHEL
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote:
> Just because one particular method of prophylaxis fails to protect against all threats doesn?t mean we should stop using it, or increase its strength.
Actually it does.There is no more obvious head butting than with
strong passwords vs usability. Strong login passwords and usability
are diametrically opposed.
The rate of brute force attack succe...
2015 Jul 30
0
Fedora change that will probably affect RHEL
On Wed, July 29, 2015 4:16 pm, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote:
>> Just because one particular method of prophylaxis fails to protect
>> against all threats doesn???t mean we should stop using it, or increase
>> its strength.
>
> Actually it does.There is no more obvious head butting than with
> strong passwords vs usability. Strong login passwords and usability
> are diametrically opposed...
2015 Jul 29
0
Fedora change that will probably affect RHEL
On Jul 29, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote:
>> Just because one particular method of prophylaxis fails to protect against all threats doesn?t mean we should stop using it, or increase its strength.
>
> Actually it does.There is no more obvious head butting than with
> strong passwords vs usability. Strong login passwords and usability
> are diametrically opposed.
Security is *alw...