Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Passwords

[August1991]

Increasingly, passwords require longer, more complicated letters: 12 letters, with capitals and numbers 

Passkeys. Fingers. Face photos.

MFA. Two system verification

They ask for your cellphone (mobile/handy) number. 

Then, the number on the back of your credit card.

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Artificial Intelligence? I reckon that Artificial Intelligence will not solve this fundamental problem.

[herbie]

Oh yeah, I'm gonna trust "the cloud" to store my bank passwords. And pay some N Koreans with a Russian domain a monthly fee to remember them for me.

[August1991]

On 8/16/2025 at 3:42 PM, herbie said:

Oh yeah, I'm gonna trust "the cloud" to store my bank passwords. And pay some N Koreans with a Russian domain a monthly fee to remember them for me.

Precisely.

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Trust.

Edited August 28, 2025 by August1991

[herbie]

Keep your old computer, and add a big hard drive,
A spinner, niot an SSD.

Wipe Winows and add a freebie like Open Media Vault or TruNAS
or don't, just format the new drive and set it to share.
Plug it in in a corner with no monitor, keyboard or mouse, just a newtork connection.

Uae it to share, store or backup your other stuff.
 

[August1991]

On 8/27/2025 at 10:04 PM, herbie said:

Keep your old computer, and add a big hard drive,
A spinner, niot an SSD.

Wipe Winows and add a freebie like Open Media Vault or TruNAS
or don't, just format the new drive and set it to share.
Plug it in in a corner with no monitor, keyboard or mouse, just a newtork connection.

Uae it to share, store or backup your other stuff.
 

Herbie,

Here, I disagree. Old computer? It is slow. Screen looks like crap. Change!

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My issue is with AI.

If this Artificial Intelligence idea is so good, why can't it solve a basic problem that everyone has: passwords.

[herbie]

Use your old one for storage and backup only. I used a used Dell microcomputer for $80, like those tiny ones bank tellers have. Put a 2TB laptop spinner drive (recovered from dead machine) and a 128 NVME SSD (also recovered) downloaded TrueNas free and put it to USB to boot & setup.
Took a few hours reading how to set up, now I can send files from my PC Desktop, laptop, my Mac, my iPhone wireless to iy

No monitor, no keyboard, no mouse. Just power cord and network cable, It was too ungodly slow to use as a desktop and was an upgrade to an older Dell 160 mini thingamajig with just a 1TB spinner with Ubuntu 16.04. They just pass files through your home network so speed isn't an issue.

I also use a shared Windows folder on my big D drive of my Ryzen for quickly moving stuff. Sometimes I download like a 5GB ISO on my laptop in the front of the house and send it to the shared folder in the workroom computer.

Or if you want to use your old one as another desktop, try out Linux. There's a good simple RaspberryOS for PCs on raspberry website.
If it's like 2010 or newer, try LinuxMint. Won't seem slow - mainlu cuz your learning as you go. 

I'm a computer hoarder, got a couple 2008 era netbooks with Intel Atoms that couldn't even handle Vista I can't toss. Even set one with only 1 GB and a 4GB drive up as a 'Hilary Clinton' private mail server just as a rainy day project. Had to add a camera SD card to hold any mail in it.
Ran a website on the 8Gb drive one for a couple years as "2Lwithit.com"

[August1991]

On 9/3/2025 at 11:37 PM, herbie said:

Use your old one for storage and backup only.

...

I'm a computer hoarder, got a couple 2008 era netbooks with Intel Atoms that couldn't even handle Vista I can't toss. 

Many people miss my point.

If AI is so good, why doesn't Herbie use it?