Toward a totalitarian future – camera by camera ~ By Phil Elmore

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By Phil Elmore Posted: October 08, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 "So the combination to the air shield," intones Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet in the classic Mel Brooks film "Spaceballs," "is one, two, three, four … five? … That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard ... the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!" It's a funny moment in a funny movie, the kind of thing that college students used to quote to each other when they weren't repeating lines from Monty Python sketches. For all I know, they still do ... but maybe they're Twittering those lines to each other now. The U.K.'s The Register recently reported on data from a phishing attack on Hotmail e-mail accounts. The data from the attack provided analysts with a window into the luggage-combination idiocy of quite a few e-mail users, because the most common password discovered – meaning the most common password used by e-mail account owners operating independently of each other through this particular provider's sample – was "123456." Now, obviously, this isn't a good idea. Your password should be much "stronger" than that. It should be a nonsense word or phrase that only you know, something you never speak aloud and that has no specific associations to you. It should contain upper and lower case letters, numbers, and even random punctuation. It should be changed often. Given this, which most of you know already, I'm going to ask you a seemingly random question: What do the movie "Spaceballs," the password habits of e-mail users, omnipresent electronic technology and New York City's leftist mayor, Michael Bloomberg, have in common? By this I mean apart from the immediate association one may draw between Mel Brooks' fumbling, incompetent "President Skroob" and the unctuous Bloomberg, whom I'm willing to believe would actually, physically use as toilet paper an original copy of the Constitution and its Bill of Rights if he thought no one was looking. [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]