From: Kevin W. Wall <[email protected]> >Boy, the latter sounds like advice that a black hat hacker would give someone >to ensure simple dictionary attacks are successful. Your dog's name? Really???
Beats the usual method of writing it on a Post-It note where the janitorial staff can see. The current state of "security" in corporate America is somewhere between parlous and laughable. I've been in a Fortune 100 CEO's office -- his login/pw were indeed on a Post-It, stuck to his monitor. The most common password is "Password". I know of at least one global company whose database password was "Oracle". For a time in the 1980s, the BUPERS password on at least one dialup node was "Letmein". If you're wanting thousands of users to change their passwords once a month and you're NOT going to allow them to use Post-Its, you'd better plan to hire hundreds of kids for "Tech Support". _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
