On 09/04/2013 04:59 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
That's the whole reason the content restrictions turn themselves off
once the password hits 16 characters: passphrases are easy to
remember, and generally quite secure. So, no, "it's easy to remember"
is not an adequate excuse for choosing a poor password for a service
that has a lot of other people depending on its integrity.
Then please add helpful guidelines as to how people can choose a safe
and easy to remember password /or passphrase/. Most people aren't password
experts, and the current one-line message isn't useful.
A link here should do the trick (which succinctly sums up this entire
thread):
https://xkcd.com/936/
(Apologies if I missed another reference to it.)
Dag Sverre
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