On Sep 4, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn <d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no> wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig I hate that comic :| ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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