These strong password requirements were not invented by evil programmers designed to thwart the heroic efforts of usability experts across the globe...
It is one of the minimum "due diligence" requirements (PCI) for merchants who want to accept major credit cards online. http://usa.visa.com/merchants/risk_management/cisp_overview.html No one wants to make it more difficult for a user to sign-up, but I think everyone would agree that successful "brute force" attacks are not very "user-friendly". It is not about security through "inconvenience" but there are real technical reasons for strong passwords at least on e-commerce sites. It is the lesser of two evils. If a user has ADHD, then there is software to help them keep (and even create) strong passwords. http://www.snapfiles.com/get/keepass.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34957 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
