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 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
