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Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help

Posted by samzenpus on from the close-your-spy-network dept.

coondoggie writes "The Russian ring charged this week with spying on the United States faced some of the common security problems that plague many companies — misconfigured wireless networks, users writing passwords on slips of paper, and laptop help desk issues that take months to resolve."

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  1. Re:Thats the least of their problems. by Culture20 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    nobody can remember a 26 character password

    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. If preschoolers can learn an arbitrary sequence of meaningless symbols totaling 26, then I think it's possible. Plus, your sentence is longer than 26 characters and so is this one.

    How exactly was I redundant above? GP said it couldn't be done, and I pointed out that almost every five year old in the U.S. does it. And a lot of 20-25 year olds re-learn it backwards.