Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

[Walter Bright]

On 1/9/2023 7:12 AM, Don Allen wrote:
> So is an airplane (despite the internal redundancies, the whole system can fail, 
> e.g., the 737 rudder actuator failures), and yet we fly. That something is a 
> single point of failure is, considered alone, not an argument against its use. 
> The decision to use or not should be based on a weighing of the benefits vs the 
> risk/cost (probability of failure and its cost).

The rudder failure was a very baffling problem, and it wasn't even clear it 
*was* a rudder failure for years.


> As for LastPass, I was a user, with a long-enough random password drawn from a 
> large enough character set resulting in > 10^15 possibilities. A key that hard 
> to find by brute force gets the risk low enough for me so I can enjoy the 
> benefit of having access to my passwords from all my devices and share them with 
> my wife and vice-versa. What's the alternative? An encrypted spreadsheet? 
> Unworkable.

A strong password isn't good enough. There are other ways in. A key logger may 
record your password.


> I will say, though, that I have cancelled my LastPass subscription and migrated 
> to 1Password, because I think the way LastPass handled this was dishonest.

Just be aware you've got a single point of failure for *all* your passwords.