Please do not change your password

Boston Globe ^ | April 11, 2010 | Mark Pothier

[shorty_harris]

Yep, that’s why I like it (and it’s free). And Dropbox also works on those three OS’s, so I can easily get to my password database from any computer, anywhere. Even from my new windows computer (just bought a Dell Mini 10 with Windows 7 starter, my first windows computer in many years).

[CharlesWayneCT]

I had my computer password on my computer, so when I couldn’t remember my login, I could get on my computer and look it up.

:-)

[stylin_geek]

I use alphanumeric passwords that are at least 12 characters long. (It irritates me when I run into a system that won’t let me use special characters)

I don’t change them often, because I tend to think most people use much simpler passwords than I do and therefore, those people who are more likely to be targeted for password theft.

Periodically, I run a brute force crack against one of my passwords just to make sure it’s very difficult to crack.

[Lazamataz]

I use Password123 and haven’t had a problem yet.

[RedWhiteBlue]

I use Roboform, rated #1 in password managers:

http://download.cnet.com/windows/password-managers/

[stylin_geek]

I’m only paranoid because they’re out to get me.

[Mygirlsmom]

My favorite password of all time (for a defunct account) was

D3f3@tDem$

[Ezekiel]

a simple yet hard to decipher system

For some reason I was reminded of the dream you posted back in 2001. I had the thread bookmarked but it - like many older threads - vanished into FR's black hole. Oddly enough, I have DU to thank for preserving the post (I Googled the original URL and found that it had been discussed on DU).

I was shocked when I reread it. It has a different "look" to it, rather than being a possible dream about 911 "mislocated" in Boston:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3afb2dd83fb4.htm#16

To: semaj

I've had the following dream at least twice involving an airliner:

I dreamed I was in downtown Boston and a Boeing 747 flew into the John Hancock tower. For those unfamiliar with Boston, the John Hancock tower is a 60 story glass building - the tallest skyscraper in Boston at 790 feet.

Anyway, in the dream, I'm walking past the Boston Public Library towards Copley Place and I look up in the sky and see this 747 coming in low to the ground. It crashes into the building up near the top so that the nose section is sticking out one end and the tail section is jutting out of the other. The wings shear off and fall to the ground.

Strangely enough, nobody around me seems to react to this seemingly catastrophic event. People just go on walking as usual. However, several fire trucks and police cars nonchalantly approach the building and begin to commence rescue operations. None of the rescue personnel appear to be in much of a hurry. It's almost like they are carrying out a tired, routine drill.

However, I can hear distant screams from the airplane above as I approach the building. Sort of like the screams you hear from a distant roller coaster. People up there are screaming but nobody down below seems to be paying very much attention.

After waking from this dream (I've had it at least twice), I can't seem to get myself together right away. The eerie feeling persists for an hour or two and I can't get the sound of the distant screams out of my head nor the vision of the airliner pierced like an arrow through the John Hancock building in Boston.

16 Posted on 05/10/2001 17:25:30 PDT by SamAdams76

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John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that "John Hancock" became, in the United States, a synonym for "signature".

Before the American Revolution, Hancock was one of the wealthiest men in the Thirteen Colonies, having inherited a profitable shipping business from his uncle. Hancock began his political career in Boston as a protégé of Samuel Adams, an influential local politician, though the two men would later become estranged.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

>>>the vision of the airliner pierced like an arrow through the John Hancock building*<<<

*The want, will, and hopes of the people.

[SamAdams76]

Interesting analysis. I have had many other haunting dreams since. I guess I need to start writing them down.