Student paper "editorial" on robust passwords

[Dan Updegrove <updegrove () MAIL UTEXAS EDU>]

Colleagues,


I thought you'd be amused by this "editorial," in today's Daily Texan (the
student paper) in response to our new policy to require robust passwords.

Dan Updegrove


> Viewpoint: [Please enter new password]
>
>
>
> It will likely take less time to read this editorial than it will to think
> of a new password for UT Direct. We'd like to help. In The Daily Texan's
> continuing tradition of public service, each word in this editorial meets
> the criteria to be a possible UT EID password.
>
>
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DT article --
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2004/09/23/Opinion/Viewpoint.please.Enter.New.Password-728041.shtml

UT EID info -- https://utdirect.utexas.edu/nlogon/eid_suite/general/



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