Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to crack a PW in LO?

On 17.10.2012 12:38, Jay Lozier wrote:
> On 10/16/2012 09:12 PM, rost52 wrote:
> > I attended last week a seminar on the the legal situation with social
> > networks. The presenting US lawyer mentioned that even in the US
> > asking for FB passwords is illegal.
> >
> >
> > On 16.10.2012 22:59, Jay Lozier wrote:
> > >    Anyone asking for my Facebook password in a job interview is
> > > out of luck; I do not know it because I use a password manager and each
> > > password I use is generated per account
> It has not stopped people from asking in a job interview. In most US
> states it is no explicitly illegal nor is it explicitly illegal in US
> Federal law. A couple of counter arguments would be: "Do you really want
> me to violate my contract with Facebook?", or "Do you realize you are
> asking me to violate one the most basic tenets of computer security;
> never reveal your log in credentials to anyone?" The first implies that
> they will ask you to potentially violate a contract or, worse, the law.
> The second implies they are stupid and are very cavalier about
> protecting corporate assets.
>
> Under US labor law asking the question potentially allows the employer
> to find out information that they can not legally ask in an interview.
> This is the primary legal challenge to the question that is an implicit
> illegal question by the employer.
>
> I can truthfully say I do not know my Facebook or virtually any other
> password because I use a password manager to generate and store them.
> And I am not in the habit of carrying the file and the manager around on
> a USB stick.
Great ways out of troubles! Thanks.


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