On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:06 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:22, Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Complex passwords are for protecting against the situation where the
>> bank's salted password database is stolen and the attacker starts to
>> brute force each hash.
>
> Yes, but the idea of what is. Implied has changed. It's not about making the 
> password random as much as it is about making it LONG.
>
>> Though most banks probably just store it plaintext anyway.

More likely an encrypted USB key with the password written on a sticky note.

> I hope we've gotten beyond that.

Would you like to buy a bridge?

-- 
George N. White III <[email protected]>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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