Just use a marker and write it on the wall. If the person trying to get access are in the room you are likely dead from some terrible mistake of science and this way at least you can add to the lore.
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my boss a decade or so ago hept a printed spreadsheet 12x12 with small various passwords like b0b'sURuncle!
then any password for any system was a game of battleship. What's the cisco password? C-10, you break out the paper and go.
he had no idea that someone would quicly get into anything on that page if they had more than a couple minutes around it.
I have an aexcel sheet like this. it is a decoy. has about 100 legit looking passwords, none of which are real.
I work at a school. I have access to a label maker. I put "NewPasswd = hunter2" on the inside of my work laptop because Im immature. Caught 2 people trying to login with it. (worst part is only 1 was a student...)
I wonder if you can configure your laptop to take a picture if the password entered is "hunter2"...
https://askubuntu.com/questions/253189/can-i-make-the-webcam-take-a-picture-when-an-incorrect-password-is-entered And for windows you need a dedicated program...
Definitely possible on Linux. Not so much on windows
Webcam snap on bad password, you'd have to write something. Make a service, watch the security events for failed login. I think you could do it, but it would be work.
Just edit PAM to run a script on fail if the attempt was hunter2. The script takes a photo with the webcam. I'm sure there's cli webcam utilities.
speaking more toward the windows side
I remember having something like that on windows, but maybe it was the adware from the manufacturer, I don't remember
Why is your password just asterisks?
That's right, notepad is.
If it's not a password manager, why is it managing my passwords?
Because you believe in circular reasoning and you are begging the question
You wouldnt believe what my favourite book is
Excel is whatever you want it to be.
https://github.com/AyrA/ExcelStuff
Edit: Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20141028042934/reddit.com/r/excel/comments/2jtd2f/worked_on_a_completely_locked_down_machine_time/
I think the reason excel is always there like a cockroach is that it gives people programming capabilities without programming
well, it's available, and it's structured. The interface is easy and flexible. It's like the perfect gateway drug to automating things, it's just slow, versioning is questionable and they keep chaning things that can break the more ambitious hacks
What kind of fucking savage uses Excel as a password manager?
The publicly traded company I recently worked for did. You'd be surprised, people are lazy.
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In Japan, we use Excel for storing passwords. Creating technical manuals. Or make presentations that would do better in PowerPoint. Database you say? Yes, also!
So is the excel workbook file encrypted?
And is the encryption as strong as a password manager encryption?
You have the best username I've ever seen on Lemmy.
I knew a guy that stored business login credentials in a Google sheet. Black text on black background was what made it "secure." Because you have to know that they're credentials and click on the field.
Worked in the UK for one of the largest Japanese multinationals. Our team required several government accounts with different passwords. I asked IT what are my options and they said we have none, and that their team used a text file on a shared drive so I did it on Excel instead to make to make it more searchable. If they're not willing to let you install keepass or buy any software, what can you do!
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Nope, that's silly, I use a PostIT note under my keyboard
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"Excel is the second best tool for most jobs"
- From the passwords.doc file on the desktop
Next you will tell me they are using Excel as a database.
I used to work at a company that processed business-end taxes.
I’m going to make my American compatriots very uncomfortable - I've very possibly seen your full social and address info. We handled about a third of all business taxes. I don’t care to use any of it, cuz I also got wage info. Y’all broke. (Same)
because the company I worked for processed your taxes. And your HR people are garbage and don't know how to do their job.
I cannot tell you how many times I had to request my IT team to scrub files from our retention policy because your shitty HR sent it to me in cleartext to troubleshoot instead of through our encrypted box.
Well my company HR was so dumb I used to be able to look up everyone's personal information and income because they tried using Salesforce to store employee data but didn't know how permissions worked.
As one of the lower paid employees according to that info. It was not my problem. I don't work in IT and didn't get hired for my technical experience, so I offer none.
But is it a database?
I'll just write my password (which is the same for all my accounts) on a post-it and stick it to the monitor then.
You mean you don't write it on a piece of paper then place it in a room that is barricaded from the inside, but still accessible by a securius route through the building filled with environmental puzzles and enemies? The barricade should also be convenient to move from inside the room for fast return to your computer.
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