Well, I did say 'reasonable size'.. I honestly doubt I'd be able to remember 6MB worth of password data. Let's not blow things out of proportion.
What I'm saying is that we've worked on making things more secure - or making more in depth security possible. Let's keep moving forward, whether on paper or in real life any progress is far better than regress. I feel that limiting a password to 16 characters could be seen as regression.
I'll concede biometric locks may not have been the best example, but the principal is the same, let's not move backwards.
Not sure that anyone is necessarily complaining. It is just strange that in this day and age a company would opt to allow for something to be less secure than you would like for it to be. Gmail will accept gigantic passwords, being able to manage a password of any reasonable size is relatively trivial from a technical standpoint, and generally better security practice.
Indeed locks invented hundreds of years ago are not quite as secure as a biometric lock, but you wouldn't go and replace a bunch of biometric locks with home grade locks... it seems like backwards progress is all.
Someone might be a password nut, and wish to have a phrase or sentence as their password, why would anyone argue with that?
I agree, I'm on the 'Other OS' team - but I still would like to be able to co-exist happily and not have massive flame wars back and forth.
Any security hole is bad, no matter what it is found in. The real concern should be 'does it get fixed quickly' 'is there a current viable workaround' etc...
That is why these conventions and contests are held and we should be grateful for them.
Yeah, because everyone with Mod privileges is a green-bleeding android fan / apple hater who will to a fault, wield their mod privileges to support their own and like minded opinions abandoning all others.
So when is someone going to call the carriers out on all the other stupid crap they try to pull.
Communications will be free in the not so distant future, ubiquitous... the carriers are trying to fight it any way they can.
At some point the balance between bandwidth and availability will be such that you'll be paying for everything but the service. They'll charge you by the website visited, by the tweet sent, for every flipping bit... not the connectivity but the activity.
The carriers are battling to keep themselves from self inflicted foot wounds...
"We've got the biggest, fastest, best network... but we're sorry, we can't allow you to use it"
How do you know I don't assess my needs? How do you know I buy top of the line regardless? How do you know I don't consider price/performance ratios? How do you know I give a rats ass about the commercials?
I personally don't like any of the Apple commercials... the guy talking with the soft voice all excited yet reserved, yeah he gets on my nerves.
You may not like Apple's products, but that does not mean that they are 'crap'. Far from it actually, they are very well built and reliable as can be. The companies that make the $500 computers are making sub-standard hardware available to the people who want to pay $500. Every top PC manufacturer has a 'premium' line of very expensive computers. They are expensive because they use the best hardware, not the scaled back stuff with less oomph. You may get more per dollar of a PC than an Apple, but I have several years worth of experience with my Apples being INSANELY reliable. I'm sure people have their share of issues with them, but from my personal experience my Apple computers have been phenomenal. My Apple devices have been just as phenomenal, but maybe I'm getting one of the few 'not crap' devices put out, I dunno.
Don't assume that because someone likes an Apple product means they aren't knowledgable about PC hardware and PC based software. Some of us are so tired of dealing with all the BS from years and years of "15 hours to make Linux do this" or "oh em gee you have a virus AGAIN?!" that they want an OS that gets out of the way, OS X does that for me. I have several PC's both at work and at home, they are all generally good machines. My gaming desktop is phenomenal. I prefer my Apple products.
So... in answer to your question, no. I don't really see the problem...
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Brilliant, I have always wanted a toilet on the ceiling!
I want a toilet. Do those even work in gravity?
Well, I did say 'reasonable size'.. I honestly doubt I'd be able to remember 6MB worth of password data. Let's not blow things out of proportion.
What I'm saying is that we've worked on making things more secure - or making more in depth security possible. Let's keep moving forward, whether on paper or in real life any progress is far better than regress. I feel that limiting a password to 16 characters could be seen as regression.
I'll concede biometric locks may not have been the best example, but the principal is the same, let's not move backwards.
Not sure that anyone is necessarily complaining. It is just strange that in this day and age a company would opt to allow for something to be less secure than you would like for it to be. Gmail will accept gigantic passwords, being able to manage a password of any reasonable size is relatively trivial from a technical standpoint, and generally better security practice.
Indeed locks invented hundreds of years ago are not quite as secure as a biometric lock, but you wouldn't go and replace a bunch of biometric locks with home grade locks... it seems like backwards progress is all.
Someone might be a password nut, and wish to have a phrase or sentence as their password, why would anyone argue with that?
I'm sure most hotmail users are more worried about the minimum character limit rather than the maximum.
"My password can't be 'poop' anymore. How will I ever remember it?"
Amazon ships really fast... take this for example
I have already started my bottle cap collection... when the big one hits, I'll be a billionaire.
I was about to say the very same thing, though It would not have been so eloquent.
I agree, lets keep rocking the boat till it tips over.
Perhaps bandwidth costs would go down if the internet wasn't flooded with advertisements.
Their powered gliders are not susceptible to brute force attacks.
Doh!
I agree, I'm on the 'Other OS' team - but I still would like to be able to co-exist happily and not have massive flame wars back and forth.
Any security hole is bad, no matter what it is found in. The real concern should be 'does it get fixed quickly' 'is there a current viable workaround' etc...
That is why these conventions and contests are held and we should be grateful for them.
Tis sadly yet verily true.
That this is the first time in history you have been able to pay to have the 'history books' 'doctored'?
If stupid people would quit clicking on stupid things.
Apple just patented that so it can sue the pants off of any company that tries to do that...
No conspiracy here, move along...
Yeah, because everyone with Mod privileges is a green-bleeding android fan / apple hater who will to a fault, wield their mod privileges to support their own and like minded opinions abandoning all others.
Just sayin'
Makes me miss my 'Turbo' button on my 486...
You've got me there.
I'm pretty sure pointing out the Karma in others constitutes negative Karma on your part. (And now MY part for calling you out. Thanks... )
I'll get you next time Apple, Next... Time...
TSA won't stop until they have seen EVERYONE naked.
Ultimate government funded pervert society...
I thought it said patient troll...
Little tip guys, don't drink and slashdot.
So when is someone going to call the carriers out on all the other stupid crap they try to pull.
Communications will be free in the not so distant future, ubiquitous... the carriers are trying to fight it any way they can.
At some point the balance between bandwidth and availability will be such that you'll be paying for everything but the service. They'll charge you by the website visited, by the tweet sent, for every flipping bit... not the connectivity but the activity.
The carriers are battling to keep themselves from self inflicted foot wounds...
"We've got the biggest, fastest, best network... but we're sorry, we can't allow you to use it"
How do you know I don't assess my needs? How do you know I buy top of the line regardless? How do you know I don't consider price/performance ratios? How do you know I give a rats ass about the commercials?
I personally don't like any of the Apple commercials... the guy talking with the soft voice all excited yet reserved, yeah he gets on my nerves.
You may not like Apple's products, but that does not mean that they are 'crap'. Far from it actually, they are very well built and reliable as can be. The companies that make the $500 computers are making sub-standard hardware available to the people who want to pay $500. Every top PC manufacturer has a 'premium' line of very expensive computers. They are expensive because they use the best hardware, not the scaled back stuff with less oomph. You may get more per dollar of a PC than an Apple, but I have several years worth of experience with my Apples being INSANELY reliable. I'm sure people have their share of issues with them, but from my personal experience my Apple computers have been phenomenal. My Apple devices have been just as phenomenal, but maybe I'm getting one of the few 'not crap' devices put out, I dunno.
Don't assume that because someone likes an Apple product means they aren't knowledgable about PC hardware and PC based software. Some of us are so tired of dealing with all the BS from years and years of "15 hours to make Linux do this" or "oh em gee you have a virus AGAIN?!" that they want an OS that gets out of the way, OS X does that for me. I have several PC's both at work and at home, they are all generally good machines. My gaming desktop is phenomenal. I prefer my Apple products.
So... in answer to your question, no. I don't really see the problem...