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Re: PW validation (was: Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 24 Apr 2000 01:04:33 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> I take it as a given that most people
but not all. I don't.
> will still write a password down
> somewhere no matter how easy or difficult it is for them to remember (if they
> feel that password is important) just in case they might forget it. Even if
> most people don't, it certainly doesn't alarm me one bit knowing that some
> people would -- and do.
>
> Maybe they write it down backwards, or shifted by one letter, or letter-case
> flopped,
I doubt most people that write down passwords apply any of these cyphers to
them but I am just speculating on this particular point.
> or even raw, but it's still safer for them and for LUGNET if they
> keep a written record of it in a safe place (such as their wallet or purse
> or bureau at home) than if they have a weak password which could be guessed
> at from any of 100 million nodes on the Internet.
Fascinating... can you provide a reference for this assertion, or is it just
conjecture? Keeping ATM passwords in one's wallet or purse is a particularly
bad practice, for example. But then, we're talking about something rather
different than money, aren't we?
++Lar
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