Suckage. E-mail stupidity.

[azurelunatic]

So what do I do?

Evidently I hit the wrong combination of things, and I clear out the inbox of my Yahoo mail. Fortunately I'd responded to most of the things I needed to do.

One of the things lost, alas, was the e-mail I was saving, for sentimental reasons, the notification that my account had been credited with six months' paid time.

Ah well. Less clutter in the inbox.

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[iroshi.livejournal.com]

I did *something* yesterday, I still don't know what, that cleared out my "sent mail" folder...of my WORK e-mail. This is an Ungood thing; I need records of who I've contacted, and when people call and go, "I got this email from you," I need to be able to pull it up to find out what I said, because I do NOT remember all the names of all the people I sent emails to.

Actually a lot more mail disappeared; it appears I did something to cause everything to be archived...but I got everything else back out of the archive. Sent mail doesn't seem to archve anywhere (I looked and looked), it just disappears. Gah. Groupwise sucks.

[azurelunatic]

Uh-oh.

I got my father to resend the crucial school paperwork mail he sent me.

Fortunately for me, I have a folder named "Memberships" where I file passwords and the like that are mailed to me, after quick review.

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[iroshi.livejournal.com]

All my passwords are mnemonics to me, but non-English words, or compound words that would make no sense to anyone else. Only close friends who *share* my reading habits would be able to hack my passwords.

You probably could, if you thought hard enough about who I am, and how I self-identify.

Anyway, I have a set of 5 or 6, so if I can't remember which password I used for a particular place, it's not that bad...I can try a few. I'll usually get it in just a few tries.

[azurelunatic]

Oh, my passwords that I assign myself, I have no trouble with. It just depends on the *spelling* of a particular mnemonic, for one that has several acceptable alternatives in my internal shorthand; or the particular mutation of a mnemonic that has several iterations or possible directions to go.

It's randomly assigned passwords that I don't use a service enough to have memorized/changed yet that trip me up. ...I still have a few password fragments of randomly assigned passphrases in memory. Trying to assign meaning to *them* was a trip.

There's an Asimov Black Widowers story about a hacked password by shared reading habits.

I'd probably have to reread to have it kick me as to exactly what, but I've got a short list of guesses from a particular fandom which I will not name so that you need neither deny nor confirm.

Students of my current reading habits would probably be baffled by my password generation scheme. Since it depends on my typical randomly triggered associations, I think only someone who's grown up with me and shared my reading, ALL of it, and spends enough time with me now to know the current additions, would be able to hack it. Perhaps my younger sister, if given the top five hundred list of books influential to me. Perhaps Darkside, if given the same. Perhaps Votania. Very few others.

I would be an easy target for Ari Emory to crack the password of, though, given that so much of my mind is open-source.

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[iroshi.livejournal.com]

I'd probably have to reread to have it kick me as to exactly what, but I've got a short list of guesses from a particular fandom which I will not name so that you need neither deny nor confirm.

If you're curious, feel free to email me your guesses. :)

amberfox could probably hack all my passwords, given time and thought. She knows one of them, so it would get her started. Chris knows two iterations of my password, but would never be able to figure the rest out. My ex, Mark, knows my PIN number and the reasoning behind it, but since it bears only a vague resemblance to my current password-schema, and he knows nothing about the literature of the current schema, would not be able to figure anything out from there.