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  1.  @askleonotenboom  when you create a password with them...does the password look like scrambled eggs of characters...and...each time i log into something....does that set of characters changed...so...i log into bank x pwd 1 = $%$@%/...then I log bank x again and pwd 1 = )((***...?
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  2. TL;DR: OneDrive by itself is fine. Just don't enable Backup. And I agree - I discovered this behavior myself - OneDrive Backup is confusing and even dangerous.
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  3. On the one hand, yes, nothing lasts forever. On the other hand, as long as there exists the knowledge to retrieve the data, then it is TECHNICALLY retrievable. (I still have multiple working floppy drives, both 3-1/4 inch and 5-1/2 inch. No 8 inch, though.) As for SATA, it's been out well over 20 years. It's not going away any time soon, but it won't last forever. (But then, you can still find IDE drives for sale, so...)
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  4. Hi Leo, congratulations! Twenty years is quite something. Where I always fist associate your channel with is our chat a few years ago about my nationality and where I live in relation with your last name. I did not need your lessons, however I love looking at your video's and have a font memory of that small converstion in your reactions about The Netherlands where your great-great-great-grandparrants came from. You made quite an efford with Ask Leo and I think you loved any minute of it. But I have to admit, I still have to watch this video. I only saw the first 28 seconds and decided first to congratulate you. Now I am going to watch the rest. Congratulations Leo! And enjoy!
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  5. You do well, I don't think I've learned much from you, but I can use your videos to teach others. I remember the dark days of IE5 and IE55 like it's some kind of PTSD. Honestly, Netscape wasn't awesome either. Old Opera was pretty darn good. Firefox is where I settled and still am. I remember the time when it was still called Phoenix. I've always been a standards guy, didn't like Flash, Java applets, ActiveX, etc. either. HTM5, VP9, AV1, etc. is where it's at. HTML5 really killed those plugins out the door. Some things I run as PWA (Progressive Web App) now, I have a Firefox Phone for a while, that's how much I supported standards, original iPhone was supposed to be that way too. But maybe some things should be native in that time, so they went with that and then they eventually they figured out could make lots of money with the app store model. And mobile Safari became the IE5 of mobile.
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  6. This behavior is litterally ridiculous, if you turn on backup then all the shortcuts are updated, so you can work in the OneDrive folder to keep everything backed up. But that is essentially no different from just working always in the OneDrive folder anyhow, and achieve the same without having this package messing with all your local folders. I wouldn't ever recommend anyone ever used the backup.
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  7. Brut force methods only work on stolen hash tables. There are very few situations where stolen hash tables are not noticed, and the people involved are advised to change their passwords. Using a brut force attempt on a raw password program is nonsense since most now have a 3 tries and you are locked out for an hour, or whatever. Many banks lock your account until you reset your password. So all this using huge password crap is nonsense!
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  8. started using passphrases as a teen s I could remember my login without younger sibling stealing it fro a sticky note
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  9. The random letter password algorithm you're using to figure out how many possible combinations there are includes passwords like "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" (16 of the same letter). To eliminate these and arrive at a more real world count you need to approach the problem with statistics. Your thought is exactly right, just includes the repetitive letter password which, I hope, no one would use. A multilingual pun makes an interesting pass phrase. "No tiene any" for instance.
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  10. Well the problem with Hdd’s is that they contain metal read write heads on a spinning magnetic platter these heads under extreme cold and heat will break and you can and will lose ALL of your data so if you want to store long term data make sure this equipment is climate controlled.
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  11. 72*72 is like 5000
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  12. "Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV." - Your video (which is awesome and informative, btw), makes me wonder about that time the former cheeto-in-chief went on a rant about his mental abilities by repeating those 5 random words.. What are the odds he was actually revealing to the entire world the secret words someone had set as his password? For any other human on the planet, the notion of them being so dumb as to say out loud the very thing they were told never to say out loud seems preposterous, no one is that stupid! Right? But for a nitwit with a reputation for doing exactly that, the idea seems far more plausible. Let's face it, Drump can't keep a secret to save his own arse. I'd bet money "Person-Woman-Man-Camera-TV" was supposed to be a secret passphrase he was supposed to keep under wraps. Whether it was the password to his Twitter account, or the nuclear launch verification phrase, is anyone's guess. I also question whether or not anyone would have felt it necessary to change the phrase after he broadcast it to the world, either because they doubt anyone would believe someone so stupid as to reveal their password in such a manner, or because they felt it pointless to give Loose-Lips-Donny a new secret phrase knowing it would only be a matter of days before he compromised that one as well.
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  13. 2:50 no it’s not! Surely you know about sextillions, quintillions and quadrillions!
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  14. Now enter the possibility of using words from other languages
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  15. Yes. Missed the point of the comic completely.
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  16. While I agree with the underlying message of the video that remembering pass phrases is better than trying to remember passwords, there are a couple of very misleading things that are said in this video; 1) There are a lot more than 72 unique characters on a keyboard to make passwords out of. There is actually 95 printable ascii characters so if you have a standard American English layout keyboard like my one then you can make passwords with 95 unique characters. 2) I disagree with using words from an "Archaic word list" because of the lack or randomness from reusing words from a word list UNLESS the words are chosen at random and the pool of words is a very big pool but in that case you have just reinvented the Diceware scheme. I recommend people use the Diceware scheme and Diceware word list to save yourself the trouble of having to create a giant word list.
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  17. You really want to make your 4 word passphrase strong against an English dictionary brute force? Add a typo... But do it on a word you don't use, otherwise you are going to be typoing that word every time you use it. Adding every possible typo to your dictionary is going to balloon the complexity probably even faster than adding capitalization (most people will just capitalize the first letter of each word which doesn't in practice as any entropy). There are a lot of ways to typo a word, swapping positions, adding a letter, subtracting a letter, swapping a letter, spelling the word phonetically... and it doesn't require you to complicate the typing of your passphrase.
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  18. Tell me does shorthand have anything to do with hieroglyphics I need to know because i was cut off from reality
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  19. So if i use a password like "I aM On to You" or "ps AX|grep keyl*" i also get to scare the shit our of script kiddies 😀
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  20. thanks a lot for clarifying this issue. i bought a refurbished pc with windows 11 and it’s been driving me nuts with the automatic backup to onedrive. and yes its all to get you to buy more dara on their cloud. will turn off backup today and manage my files offline thanks very much Microsoft stay away.
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  21. They identified your Friends from your public Friends List. Make it hard on the next scammer: change the visibility of your Friends List from public to friends-only or friends-of-friends.
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  22. Beware of key loggers stealing your passwords. Edit: Nevermind, he said it.
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  23. Thanks for explaining this. I agree that its confusing but don't believe that invasive makes a difference here. I never used the OneDrive backup for Documents before. But now that I know that it moves existing documents to OneDrive documents, I will start using this. I used to assume that it creates a new documents folder for every PC. I think Google Drive does it a little differently where it shows a different document folder for every PC backed up. And I thought OneDrive was the same.
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  24. i just tried a Win 10 system image backup and the resulting folder turned up empty! it spent 15 minutes backing it up tho, so it's pretty funny and weird
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  25. OneDrive may serve as off-site backup storage for extreme emergencies, but I still keep backup originals on a separate PC drive and copies on an external drive.
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  26. I have found the nation that still hasn't changed to the metric system is the biggest complainers, and the most change averse. As Leo said, you might even have fun changing
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  27.  @askleonotenboom  I don't understand the comment either. I like how you clearly explain the subject matter and never talk down to us like most of the IT folks at the office do.
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  28. This is cool I’m gonna start using correct horse battery staple for all my passwords now
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  29. I use random words with some characters replaced with numbers. See if you can guess it.
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  30. This appears to have become the most popular answer for pretty much everything: as (long) as possible. :-)
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  31. Four words more than four letters is longer than 16 characters
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  32. had bsd random on my x99 with i7 , one of my memory stick had different timing ,, bst got reduce , change the cpu for xeon , xpm was disable and bst have stop ,
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  33. You can't add upper case to words to the example without adding it to the other initial non-word option too or it becomes a bad comparison. You should already use both lower and upper case characters even if you don't use words. Many places limit passwords by a number of characters so words are not a good option there (I think PayPall is one of them). (Edit) Beyond that, for the sake of argument. You need to consider probability when talking about how long it takes to brute force a password since odds are very low you will guess it on the last possible try. Sometimes a machine gets lucky and guess the password pretty fast. Have enough machines running working on different passwords and odds fall in your favor to crack one of them much sooner than expected.
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  34. I have always thought of my digital presence and my presence in this world as a whole as a transient thing, that I should strive to leave as little behind as possible but as I grow older I start thinking of the old adage about "planting trees under whose shade you will never sit". This has given me something to think about.
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  35. Another hack: use another language or mix languages. "My gato es muy beautiful."
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  36. I’m using correct horse battery staple for all my passwords now.
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  37. I don't think "The jury's not in" is the expression. I think its "The jury's still out". Then again, you aren't wrong.
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  38. I discovered you I think around 2005 or 6.
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  39. Your videos are timely and contain so much useful information. Thank you.
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  40. Too bad soooo many code kiddie developers are using some old library for the login function that limits passwords to 20 characters. Every time I try to set a new password and am told “password too long,” I despair for all things sane. Sure, let’s force users to create less secure passwords.
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  41. Please, made this review again for today media.
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  42. ...And if you pick four werds that are spelled fonetikly, then dictionary attax will ortomatikly be unsuksesful.
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  43. Yes, MS are the B team. If you are a consumer (not worker), and use Windows, and MS products, why?? You have consumer choice! Use it!
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  44. using 4 four character words is the same as using 16 characters to the computer, just easier for humans to remember
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  45. Thank you
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  46. Thanks. I knew everything except the CTL 0, I had been using CTL - to get back.
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  47. I disagree that passphrases are harder to hack than characters. For a 20 character password, each position is occupied by a character. The fact these characters may or may not be coherent in English doesn't come into it. I think of it like a old safe with 3 disks - each disk holds a position, you don't care what that position is, you only care about the feedback from the disk of when it is in position. Horse and Horxe are no different to brute force. It's just needing enough time to cycle each character into position to be correct. This extends to the idea of "correcthorsebatterystaple" vs it's spaced and capitalized counterpart = well, this is a pattern of behaviour to be adopted by the 20 random string approach. "Correct Horse Battery Staple" vs "AoExe Llom!". If the point of this is memorization, then I agree, but this doesn't address the idea of pass word managers. That includes it's own risks, though.
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  48. The pw of eight characters and special marks etc 34rt?3Q9 can be bruteforced... mine: thequickbrownfoxjumpedoverthelazydig (a modification of the typing technique with all letters used, but so slightly changed.. would not be solved before the univers winks out of existance
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  49. only that they aren't, as you get about two characters worth of entropy from a random word or you need to put up with really uncommon words
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  50. Hello Leo today I ran into a problem with my computer and found the answer on your website and I would love to say thank you so much!! You are so precious to this world, hope you have a good day<3!!!!
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