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Strong Passwords Not As Good As You Think

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 13, 2009 @02:42AM from the still-better-than-'password' dept.

Jamie noticed that Bruce Schneier wrote a piece on a paper on strong passwords that tells us that the old 'strong password' advice that many of us (myself included) regard as gospel might not be as true as we had hoped. They make things hard on users, but are useless against phishing and keyloggers. Everyone can change their password back to 'trustno1' now.

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HEY! by macbeth66 · 2009-07-13 02:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

How did you now my password?
News for who? by wcrowe · 2009-07-13 02:51 · Score: 1, Redundant

...but are useless against phishing and keyloggers....
No kidding. Here's another news flash for you, computers do not run on magic crystals.

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Proverbs 21:19
The same combination as my luggage! by mrdoogee · 2009-07-13 02:52 · Score: 0, Redundant

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