On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:26:56PM -0200, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> > can force passowrd rules too. 
> 
> Yes, weak passwords will always be a problem. This is a moving target,
> what is weak today wasn't weak 10 years ago.

Actually, users are probably not picking better passwords today than 10
years ago, not unless they're forced to (and then they may write them
down). You can give them smartcards and combine that with passwords, but
users can still be kidnapped and forced to login an attacker. There's no
such thing as perfect security.

Nico
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