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Re: xkcd on password strength
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:28:35 -0800
Date sent: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:21:14 +0100 (BST) From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
I suspect that's the commonest problem today, and strength of password does nothing to help.
It does if the bad guys use LANMAN and are limited to 14 characters :-) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org She [...] asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. [...] A murderer was a worthy companion. - `The Subtle Knife', Philip Pullman victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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