Microsoft Wants To Give You A Rorschach

Preedit writes "Microsoft has set up a website that uses inkblot images to help users create passwords. The site asks users view a series of inkblots and write down the first and last letters of whatever word they associate with each inkblot. Then they combine the letters to form a password. Microsoft claims it's a way to create passwords that are easy to remember but hard to crack. But a word of warning, the story notes that Microsoft is collecting and storing users' word associations."

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Re:P**n

[Chuqmystr]

Me too! Well, not quite. In fact they can't at all be called positive phrases and typically I don't give the luser the phrase. They might go off sniveling to somebody who matters as to how I made them say something nasty about themselves pertaining to how it's their 15th password change for that month and how they should be summarily flogged with a bundle of patch cables (cat-o-five tails? My bad...) anytime they intentionally get near anything more complicated than a throw away pocket calculator. Not helpful at all for them but very therapeutic for the ol' sysadmin and that's what truly matters now isn't it?

"Hold onto these wires for me..."