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IP: DoE password policy comic relief?
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 20:16:28 -0500
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 06:48:32 -0500 From: Mike <John.Michael.Williams () Computer org> Subject: DoE password policy comic relief? [The] DOE security "czar" ... said it is now virtually impossible for employees to transfer nuclear secrets from classified to unclassified computer networks ... To quote Don Adams of "Get Smart" - Would you believe ... no more than once a week? ... once a day? Many [nuke] employees used their last names or initials, and some simply typed "password" when logging onto classified networks, he said. Now, [the czar] added, "we have a password policy that I would put up against any in industry and academia." Password Policy? Reusable passwords to guard nuclear secrets? Doesn't this constitute a well-known RISK, of breach followed by fusion? Does anybody in the press ever question these publicity handouts? Do we in the industry just sit on our hands, letting this travesty continue? [Source: Energy Chief Touts Security Upgrades at Nuclear Labs, Vernon Loeb, *The Washington Post*, 26 Jan 2000, A13: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/26/126l-012600-idx.html]
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