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The ultimate goalThe ultimate goalPosted Dec 12, 2008 8:29 UTC (Fri) by job (subscriber, #670)In reply to: The ultimate goal by felixfix Parent article: Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for GPL violations
That's very different types of information. Passwords are supposed to be a secret. They are not supposed to be "useful" to others in any meaningful way.
The other things you mention are publicly available. Plus every time I do consulting work I put them on paper in order to get paid. That's pretty useful to me.
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The ultimate goal Posted Dec 13, 2008 1:01 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Indeed, passwords are only useful when shared: the owner has to share them with the authenticator to make them work. If whacker shared with you his/her passwords then they would be useful for you to steal his identity (or whatever they protect).The quote "knowledge is most useful only when it is shared" is surprisingly accurate, even beyond software where it was supposed to be applied.
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