People are idiots
around lunchtime on Thursday, the 8th of March 2007 by Chad
However, computer security people are even worse.
Everything you have been told about what to use when choosing a password is wrong. More than 8 characters… can’t reuse passwords, or my favorite idiotic rule: change every 30 days. Avoiding Risky Password Rules can explain what is wrong with all those “must have” rules for passwords.
I mean, whats more important, what is on your computer, or what you protect with a 4 digit number, namely your bank account?
A practical example: At Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in the early 90s, they required monthly password changes. I could sit down at any desk and log in as almost any user within 3 tries. Their password in 4/92 would be: April92, 92April, or if they were really trying to be difficult, April1992. And on May 1st, everyone would change their password to….. May92, 92May or May1992.
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March 8th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Heh, my dad worked at Peach Bottom right after it went up until we Southernized. There’s a running joke in our family about his frequent radiation exposure explaining the extreme quirkiness of our little brother. :D
March 8th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
The biggest thing I remember from there… were the security guards. Especially the women. They couldn’t get through the security turnstiles, they’d have to walk outside and go through the vehicle gates to go back and forth through the secured areas.