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Passwords and Power Drills

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Re: Passwords and Power Drills

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post #5

What is this, sitcom slapstick? The slapstick of storing the security combination to the safe on the system that is locked by the card which inside the safe; and the slapstick of "You're inserting it wrong"...

Real life sometimes competes with the stupidity of TV sitcom humor. A friend just complained that his wife lost access to her computer, even though she kept the password on a sticky note. Excuse me, a Sticky Note(tm). The app. On the computer itself.

Re: Passwords and Power Drills

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post #11

Sorry for the offtopic comment, but it's bizarre to me that Google is hosting their book on Github with a github.io domain. Their previous two SRE books are hosted at https://sre.google on Google-owned IPs.[0] What was that decision process? "We're Google, and we're literally writing a book about how good we are at hosting services. But hosting some static HTML files that are almost entirely text? That's a tough one.…

The readme at https://github.com/google/building-secure-and-reliable-syste... does say this book is found there, and sure enough it's the first one on the list: https://google.github.io/building-secure-and-reliable-system... It seems this github.io URL is more like a CI run of the book, and the one on sre.google is the "published" one.

sre.google links to this book, but it links to github.io. The other two books linked on sre.google point to within the sre.google domain, so this is the odd one out.
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