Re: Security procedure question

["Mario A. Spinthiras" <mario () netway com cy>]

Pranav Lal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I remember reading somewhere that one practice for having strong passwords
> was to allow the users to write them down but treat the paper on which they
> were written like a credit card. If I remember correctly, the argument went
> that since people don't leave credit cards lying around, they would not
> leave their passwords lying around either.
>
> Has anyone tried this approach?
>
> Pranav
>
>
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If that where the foolish case then the intoxicated gentlemen that wrote 
the referred subject scenario that you read is mistaken. If this was 
indeed the case then ATM PIN codes would be written on the credit cards :)


Regards,
Mario A. Spinthiras

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