Smilodon | September 28, 2008
A safety in football is an exciting play and can be a game-changer. The defense scores 2 points, and then their team gets the ball, hopefully with good field position. It’s kind of like a technical foul in basketball, where you get uncontested free throws plus possession of the ball. But in football, the safety [...]
Smilodon | September 2, 2008
The issue with random passwords in everyday use, of course, is the balance between a good password and something you can remember. For the sake of memory, people often use their pet’s name, their middle name, birth or other significant date, old address, a favorite character, song, or movie title. In a previous article, we [...]
Smilodon | September 2, 2008
A strong password, sometimes described as a robust password, should consist of mixed characters, including uppercase, lowercase, punctuation, numbers and symbols. And longer passwords are better than shorter passwords. Here is an example of a really good password: $VKRudAn|*xmD4@hepF-AhmGO+*”iJ42EODYL~0Mr]FN2cIxM Obviously, you can’t use a password like that to log into eBay, so let’s back up [...]
Smilodon | September 2, 2008
Passwords are everywhere in this digital age, from logging onto your computer at home and work, to logging into websites, to entering a PIN (personal identification number) at the ATM. Passwords are a type of authentication. In other words, they are used to authenticate that you are who you say you are. But how do [...]