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Bad Passwords
Authored by: dbs on Jun 02, '06 08:21:16AM

If people in your household are really using as easy-to-guess passwords you might consider trying to teach them to do a better job now rather than waiting for some account to get hacked in the future. Even putting two simple words together with a number between them will be much stronger. (I.e., if it's a child who uses a pet's name suggest that they put the pets name and a number and some other name together -- not a great password, but still easy to remember and much harder to guess.)

Of course this doesn't solve the screensaver issue, but getting people into the habit of choosing good passwords is important these days.

Oh -- and remember to never use the same password across multiple accounts! We've had several systems hacked because of shared passwords.



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Bad Passwords
Authored by: whenders0n on Jun 10, '06 04:33:28PM

This is a household computer man. Everyone knows each other's password because they tell it to one another and are too lazy to log out of whatever account they are using. Not the most secure solition, sure, but security isn't really an issue at our house (probably where you work it is).



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