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Password Security Panned
museumpeace writes "Considering we just discussed passwords yesterday, is an uncanny coincidence that Technology Review runs an article today in which
Michael Schrage quotes a couple of security experts as being of the opinion that passwords are useless, with many negatives [the tougher rules only make them harder for users to remember, not harder for hackers to guess] But Shrage's suggestion that passwords are a weak bandage where system security admins and developers need to institute deeper security mechanisms such as "suspicion engines" has problems too. Any hidden filter meant to compare traffic on your account against profile of "normal" usage strikes me as both an invasion of privacy and a sure fire way to multiply calls to the help desks when a false alarm tosses out a legitimate user."
is "god", because I heard from a good source that only the most "1337" admins use that!
If thou see a fair woman pay court to her, for thus thou wilt obtain love
Sound like the combination to some idiots luggage...
"Nature bats last..."
It's inherently immoral to deny access to your data to anyone who wants to see it. All that information wants to be free! How dare you lock it behind passwords, and try to find even more oppressive methods of keeping it in chains?
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Re: your sig. Dr. Spock was a famous pediatricion. Mr. Spock is from Star Trek. Also note that it wasn't he that said the line in your quote, I'm pretty sure it was Yoda from Star Wars. You've managed to bastardize my childhood worse than George Lucas and Rick Berman now, thankyouverymuch.
Trolling is a art,
No password length can match a biometric, especially mine.
Help me out, are you dissing the security of your own password, or are you bragging about the size of your biometric?
Accountability on the heads of the powerful.
Power in the hands of the accountable.
I don't mind that, I just don't want it to know I read /.
So, if you habitually browse armadillo porn, the system will know about it. And if you go a day *without* browsing armadillo porn, the system will think something's up and lock you out.
But do you really want the system to record the fact that you browse armadillo porn?
More importantly do you want to feel compelled to compulsively look at armadillo porn daily out of fear that if you don't it'll raise a red flag and you'll be "caught with your pants down"
That's a funny phrase to use here considering that you're getting caught for NOT looking at porn...
I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?!
...but when my mother comes over
Don't you mean "down"?
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.