Hello, My Name Is USB Drive

I shudder at the thought of losing my USB drive. After some consideration, I came up with a few ideas. I figured that if I created a text file with instructions on how to return the drive on the drive root, the finder would probably be able to open it and read the instructions.

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Creating Obscure Passwords

As some Microsoft Operating System geeks know, you can type many more characters than are on a standard keyboard by using ALT+NUMPAD combination technique. For example, by holding down the ALT key, typing 234 on the number pad, then releasing ALT gives you the O character.

These odd characters have two major advantages over normal keystrokes:

1. They are unlikely to be in someone's dictionary or brute force list. Try brute forcing a password like "ace of ?s" or "I am the a and the O".

2. Some hardware key loggers will not log these odd characters. Your mileage may vary on this as some key loggers can, so don't rely on it to keep you 100% safe.

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