[Mimedefang] Passphrase - was:Re: FYI: LinkedIn MIMEDefang group is gone

[WBrown at e1b.org]

Kevin wrote on 06/06/2012 03:06:16 PM:

> After that, my general guideline is to use passphrases not passwords. 
> Things like My_Birthday_is_on_January_1st! are better than randomly 
> generated passwords.

Sorry for reviving an old thread, I was on vacation and I'm just getting 
back to some of the non-critical messages from them.

How do we get system designers to start prompting for passphrases instead 
of passwords.  That alone should clue the user into using something longer 
than "link" as their password.

I use correcthorsebatterystaple everywhere.  (NOT!)



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