army1987 comments on New Monthly Thread: Bragging - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Joshua_Blaine 11 August 2013 05:50PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 12 August 2013 11:34:14PM 0 points [-]

Get a friend to create half of my facebook password

Gurer'f gur “sbetbg lbhe cnffjbeq” yvax, naq hasbeghangryl jvgu Snprobbx lbh pna'g punatr lbhe r-znvy gb n snxr bar orpnhfr vg'q nfx lbh sbe pbasvezngvba gurer. (Ohg n qvfcbfnoyr rznvy nqqerff zvtug fbyir gung.)

(These days I just use a ridiculously long password, and log out of Facebook anywhere except on my laptop, where I have LeechBlock installed.)

Comment author: westward 14 August 2013 08:34:41PM 0 points [-]

I use a randomly generated password from LastPass. I have no idea what it is, so I can only access it from my laptop (with the Firefox LastPass Add-on). That combined with LeechBlock is pretty effective.

I could go to the LastPass site on another machine, I suppose. But I do store other, more important passwords on LastPass and don't want to expose those. And it takes only nominal inconvenience to prevent me from jumping into FB.

Comment author: somervta 12 August 2013 11:48:36PM 0 points [-]

can I ask why this is rot13'd? I don't want to read it and find out that it breaks the placebo efffect or something, which was my first thought of why it might be.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 August 2013 09:50:22AM *  0 points [-]

It describes a way to escape a precommitment, which certain people in certain situations might be better off not knowing.

Comment author: wedrifid 13 August 2013 09:58:13AM 0 points [-]

It describes a way to escape a precommitment, which certain people in certain situations might be better off not knowing.

I rather suspect that most people have encountered 'forgot my password' links before.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 August 2013 10:11:21AM 1 point [-]

Yes, but it might not have occurred to them to use them in that situation.