No more Bugzilla for me

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 08:58 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > There is a theory that changing passwords on a regular bases lessens the
> > risk of somebody's password being stolen and used nefariously.
> There are studies, which state to counterprove such statements (Sorry, 
> nor reference at hand).
> 
> They claim the key to password security is to use strong passwords, 
> while frequently changing passwords only cause users to reuse the same 
> or variations of the weak passwords they already used elsewhere.

Right, there are studies on both sides of the lines.  I'm not going to
claim either one is right, I'm just explaining the motivation behind the
new policy.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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