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Re: Please do not change your password
From: Allison Dolan <adolan () MIT EDU>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:04:34 -0400
good point! given the number of security professionals who write down passwords, this is a case of 'do as I say, not as I do'... ......Allison Dolan (617-252-1461) On Apr 15, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Steve Werby wrote:
I consider the biggest password related failure of the information security community to be that we demand that users memorize their passwords (or alternately "don't write them down"). Sure, we don't want them to attach them to their monitor or hide them under their keyboard, but do we really believe there's a significant risk if they're kept in their wallet inside their pocket and written down in a way that doesn't clearly reveal them? Or storing them in an encrypted password vault? We're causing them to re-use passwords (http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/03/10/password-website/) or create passwords that follow a similar format, which puts the systems we're trying to protect at significant risk. Long + unique + write them down securely
Current thread:
- Re: Please do not change your password, (continued)
- Re: Please do not change your password Valdis Kletnieks (Apr 14)
- Re: Please do not change your password Basgen, Brian (Apr 14)
- Re: Please do not change your password Allison Dolan (Apr 14)
- Re: Please do not change your password Doty, Timothy T. (Apr 14)
- Re: Please do not change your password Paul Kendall (Apr 14)
- Re: Please do not change your password David LaPorte (Apr 14)
- Re: Please do not change your password Jeff Kell (Apr 14)
- Re: Please do not change your password Jacob Steelsmith (Apr 14)
- Re: Please do not change your password Steve Werby (Apr 15)
- Re: Please do not change your password Steve Werby (Apr 15)
- Re: Please do not change your password Allison Dolan (Apr 15)
- Re: Please do not change your password John Ladwig (Apr 15)
- Re: Please do not change your password Paul Kendall (Apr 15)
- Re: Please do not change your password Bob Bayn (Apr 15)
- Re: Please do not change your password Valdis Kletnieks (Apr 15)
- Re: Please do not change your password Don Cochran (Apr 15)
- Re: Please do not change your password Steve Werby (Apr 15)
- Re: Please do not change your password Alex Keller (Apr 15)
- Re: Please do not change your password John Ladwig (Apr 15)
- Re: Please do not change your password Tom Talley (Apr 15)
- Re: Please do not change your password Eric Case (Apr 15)
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