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From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:10:33 -0800

InfosecurityMag reports an actual quote from a senior executive:

"We had an agreed BB policy requiring a long, complex password string.  That 
changed when a senior exec requested a simple password.  He said he couldn't  
enter the complex one while he was driving"

======================  (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
                In terms of paradigms, shift happens.
victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/
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