Peter Cushing wrote: > My take on passwords etc is that they are secure when people can > remember them without writing them down. As soon as they become too > complicated to remember people will write them down somewhere (on paper > or computer) and you have just defeated the point. > True, I usually use 25 to 30 char passwords. But I need to be able to choose them myself. These dorks just assigned three random letters and the user has no choice. Just dumb! And worse, it does not really add any security at all. It would have been far better to ask the user to choose a 7 digit number and get done with it.
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