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Re: Stats re: passwords

From: Willis Marti <wmarti () TAMU EDU>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:27:41 -0500

During a recent password audit, it was found that one user was using the

following password:  MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofy


When asked why such a big password, the user said that it had to be at least
8 characters long.

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Cheers,
Willis Marti
Director & CISO
Networking and Information Security
Texas A&M University

Current thread:

Stats re: passwords Allison Dolan (Oct 16)
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- Re: Stats re: passwords randy marchany (Oct 16)
- Re: Stats re: passwords Don M. Blumenthal (Oct 16)
- Re: Stats re: passwords Chris Kidd (Oct 16)
- Re: Stats re: passwords Matthew Wollenweber (Oct 16)
- Re: Stats re: passwords Matthew Gracie (Oct 16)
- Re: Stats re: passwords Ken Connelly (Oct 16)
- Re: Stats re: passwords Patrick P Murphy (Oct 16)
- Re: Stats re: passwords HALL, NATHANIEL D. (Oct 16)
- Re: Stats re: passwords Matthew Wollenweber (Oct 16)
- Re: Stats re: passwords Willis Marti (Oct 16)
- Re: Stats re: passwords Valdis Kletnieks (Oct 16)
- Re: Stats re: passwords Wayne Samardzich (Oct 16)
- Re: Stats re: passwords randy marchany (Oct 16)
- Re: Stats re: passwords Brent Sweeny (Oct 16)
- Re: Stats re: passwords John Lupton (Oct 19)