Re: Apple's faith-based security taking a hammering

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Valdis to Joel Esler:

> > Oh, I'm a fanboy.  Anyone knows that.  I'm also a believer in the factor that
> > "most humans are stupid" and set their passwords to "password".
>
> Am I the only one surprised that unintentional mis-spellings of "password" aren't higher
> up the "most frequently used password" lists?

Although I tend to have some sympathy with Joel's position, fortunately 
(?) most password creation software/interfaces is actually produced by 
people with a few more security clues than your typical Mac fan boy, 
and require the entry and re-entry of passwords during the creation 
process.  This presumably puts a significant crimp on the rate of 
creation of unintentionally mis-spelled passwords.



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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