[F8] fingerprint scanner

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Sun Dec 2 00:25:11 UTC 2007


On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:45:10 +0900
John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:

> To defeat the "change your password" myth, google '"best practice" 
> password security.' There's a paper I've turned up a couple of times, 
> most recently in the past week, where a professor argues changing 
> passwords regularly might have been a good idea 40 years ago, but not 
> now. His argument seems good to me, and I've not changed my preferred 
> password in over five years (and I've not disclosed it to anyone).

Hey! I know its a myth, but it is dear to the hearts of the
morons running the Sarbanes-Oxley audits at work, so changing
passwords it is. Of course, as expected, they only care about the
passwords in the Windows domain. No one has changed their
linux password in years :-)..




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