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dresdencodak: I made some Robocop Valentines for you.

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I made some Robocop Valentines for you.

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PhaChayFy
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Changes in Password Best Practices

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NIST recently published its four-volume SP800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines. Among other things, it makes three important suggestions when it comes to passwords:

  1. Stop it with the annoying password complexity rules. They make passwords harder to remember. They increase errors because artificially complex passwords are harder to type in. And they don't help that much. It's better to allow people to use pass phrases.

  2. Stop it with password expiration. That was an old idea for an old way we used computers. Today, don't make people change their passwords unless there's indication of compromise.

  3. Let people use password managers. This is how we deal with all the passwords we need.

These password rules were failed attempts to fix the user. Better we fix the security systems.

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PhaChayFy
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CallMeWilliam
2252 days ago
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A meeting recently:
Developer Team: Our passwords require special characters, and max out at 30 characters.
Me: Why on EARTH did you do any of that? Why do you have a max?
Devs: Because ... it's hard to remember something long? How long do you want it to be?
Me: ... Get rid of the max. Get rid of the special characters.
CIO: Wait. Why do we have passwords at all? Can we link to google/linkedin/facebook and make it their problem? We are not in the security business.
Devs: Yes!
acdha
2253 days ago
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I’ve been happy watching such sensible guidelines make it through the review process
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AAAAH

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Click here to go see the bonus panel!

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Of course, in real life that guy would be clawing his eyes out.

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24 days ago
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Vintage Comic - Secrets Of Haunted House #042

Pencils: Joe Kubert
Inks: Joe Kubert
DC (Nov1981)

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People who live in glass houses shouldn’t flog dead horses

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This was overheard in a check-out line conversation, and is a great piece of “advice”.  It is a nice mashup of “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” (you should not criticize other people who have the same faults as you have) and “flog (or beat) a dead horse” (to insist on talking about something that no one is interested in).   It’s a classic malaphor, incorporating two idioms to make a strange statement.  Horses and houses seem to be the culprit here.  A big thanks to Jeremy of Smoke-Eaters Studio for hearing this one and sending it in!



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