Password generator bookmarklet

Simon Willison: The bookmarklet solution to the password problem:

Nic's bookmarklet pops up a JavaScript prompt box asking for your "master" password, then MD5s it against the domain of the current login page and inserts the resulting hash in to any password fields on the page. A single password can be used for dozens of sites without any risk of a compromise of one account affecting the others. It's brilliant.

Here's the bookmarklet. Even if the login URL does change you can just have your password either reset or sent to you by the site and then set the new password using this script. Unfortunately, some login pages change all the time. I'm pretty sure Amazon's works this way.

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New poll shows Bush ahead

But this time by a few points less than the Newsweek and Time polls. I didn't read through the whole thing, but the part I found most interesting was this: Among likely voters, among people who are voting for Bush, 82% of the people voting for him are voting for him, not just against Kerry. In contrast, 50% of the people voting for Kerry are simply voting against Bush, and only 46% of the people voting for Kerry are actually voting because they like Kerry. Via IP

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