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Please Do Not Change Your Password

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-password-is-trustno1 dept.

cxbrx writes "Mark Pothier's Boston Globe article, 'Please do not change your password,' covers a paper by Microsoft Researcher Cormac Herley, 'So Long, and No Thanks for the Externalities: the Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users,' from the 2009 New Security Paradigms Workshop. Herley argues 'that user's rejection of the security advice they receive is entirely rational from an economic perspective.' Herley discusses 'password rules,' 'teaching users to recognize phishing sites by reading URLs,' and 'certificate errors.' Users obviously choose bad passwords, but does password aging actually help? There was some discussion on TechRepublic. I'm especially interested in hearing about studies about password aging."

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  1. Subject-verb agreement by edittard · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that user's rejection of the security advice they receive

    Subject-verb agreement. Look it up.

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    At the bottom of the /. main page it says 'Yesterday's News'. Well they got that right.
  2. Logical Inconsistency by TheMeuge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've always found it curious that anti-Semites generally claim that Jews are somehow inferior or sub-human, and then assign them unparalleled power to swindle and deceive, and claim that the Jews control most/all governments or most/all money.

    The two concepts, are mutually exclusive. If the Jews were inferior, they would never have been able to control everyone else who is of higher intelligence and ability.

    The logical conclusion, is that IF you are right and the Jews control all money and all governments (and have done so throughout known history), then they are clearly far superior to the rest of humanity and whatever sufferings you may ascribe to their victims, are merely the inevitable pains of one species being superseded by a further evolved descendant.

    In essence, if your conspiracy theories are correct, that means that YOU are inferior to the Jew, and your skull will be examined by the Jew descendants a thousand years from now in a museum... right next to Australopithecus and Neanderthal.

    1. Re:Logical Inconsistency by Artifice_Eternity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      See also: "Those lazy immigrants are sitting around getting fat and breeding on the taxpayer's dime! Also, they're taking all our jobs!" Which one is it? It can't be both.

    2. Re:Logical Inconsistency by sexybomber · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      If I had mod points, I'd give you a big, fat up. Since I don't, I will simply steal your argument and use it where appropriate. Well played, sir, well played.

    3. Re:Logical Inconsistency by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Well, society as a whole seems to view Hitler that way. He was a subhuman monster, yet he was intelligent enough to be able to do what he did.

      But yes, I agree with you in principle.

    4. Re:Logical Inconsistency by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Not to defend anti-semites here, but they generally regard jews as unscrupulous and therefore willing to do morally questionable things in order to get ahead, things that "reasonable" people would not consider doing... This is why the nazis likened jews to rats and other animals, which while obviously being intellectually inferior to humans are willing to do things like eat their young and kill competitors etc.
      In essence the jews are claimed to be inferior by virtue of being closer to animals and therefore less civilized.

  3. testing only by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hello