[Sigia-l] Password usability

[Andrew Boyd]

Skot,

I'm confused. Are you saying that you would not challenge the baseless
assumption by the IT security person? Is this a "he said, she said"
argument that is not worth having?

Cheers, Andrew

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Skot Nelson <skot at penguinstorm.com> wrote:
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> On Dec-10-2010, at 12:04 , Andrew Boyd wrote:
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>> I'd be
>> spinning this one around and asking your IT security colleague to
>> supply some research. So many organisations get into trouble because
>> of baseless IT security voodoo -
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> While this is true, starting a he said she said argument usually doesn't get you very far.
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> Jayson's original point about the difference between *allowing* characters and *requiring* characters is really quite reasonable.
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> Skot Nelson
> skot at penguinstorm.com
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>        "In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when
>         there is no longer anything to add, but when there
>         is no longer anything to take away."
>              -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
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