I hate system administrators that force you to create a password that is impossible to remember. Thus I have had to write them down which breaks most companies security policies. I remember a password that was 12 digits and to break it an intruder would have spent a lifetime figuring it out. We have also seen the opposite in that system admins allowing a 3 digit non-random number and those are about as easy for a hacker to guess as 123.
So next time your system admin forces a password change on you do your best to come up with something original. Try to think about how bad it would be with your companies data wiped out.
The coolest thing I have seen was a ATT employee with a special random number generator attached to his identity badge that is synced to a server. So that when they login in, they not only have to provide there account password they have to include that random number. [ZDNet]
While the article is a good one, is the ridiculous grammer in the paragraph written by the poster supposed to be a parody?
“So before you start bitching the next time your system admin forces a password change on you.” What? That isn’t even a complete thought, and it starts with a redundant preposition.