Ooble

Of course. But that doesn't stop me from making my passwords hard to crack.

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Pizentios

yeah for sure. Doesn't matter how good your passwrds are. It matters even less if they have physical access to the computer.

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Infinite Recursion

I agree Ooble... even with the fact aside... I will give the cracker/hacker compelete Hell trying to do so. So much hell, that IF they DO get in... they deserve to be there. lol

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erebus

Secure programming practices only help to water down the risk of getting attacked via well-known means. This means absolute silch when the attacker is one step ahead and formulates original code from flaws he pioneered in finding(which is rarely the case, but is often where the secure/insecure programming loop starts(or rather, started). I'm sure the guy that found the first buffer overflow vulnerability was a few steps ahead of his peers, though how long would it have taken to be wide-spread enough for their to be a methogical antidote or solution. People that write so-called secure code will always have some kind of imperfection since we *are* infact humans and not expert systems(AI anyone :-P). Lowering the risk is with no doubt good, but it isn't to say that anything is secure. I think any security enthusiast knows this and is probablly the main reason the field is so interesting.

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