> The funniest (and somewhat unrelated thing) is that we're all supposed to change our passwords every thirty days. What this means of course is that everyone writes their pw down and tapes it to their computer...otherwise, how could you possibly keep anything straight. Which of course means that the system is less safe than ever. LOL.
I believe the research concurs that changing passwords frequently makes systems less secure. I remember when I worked for AAAS back in the 1990s that they'd make us change our damn email passwords every 90 days or so. Complete waste of time, because who'd want to hack into our boring email system.
That kind of thing prompts you to develop a system for creating more complicated passwords you can remember.
Did anybody catch the story last week about Defcon and the contest where hackers where put in a sound-proof cubicle onstage and tasked with social hacking information out of Fortune 500 companies?
Chuck Munson
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