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Re: (***POSSIBLE SPAM***) Re: [SECURITY] Password Expatriation notification


From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:12:17 -0400

On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:10:47 MDT, "SCHALIP, MICHAEL" said:

You can call them "passphrases" all you want, but I'm becoming convinced that
the human mind is just not wired to follow along. 

What? Your users can't remember something like 'Bambi+Bippity-boppity-boo'?
or "$*%&# security office made me do it" (bonus points for special char use)
or "horizontal snow in the fog" (one boy in my Scout troop said he used that for
a while, after a memorable climb up a local mountain)?

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