[clug] [OT] all text passwords == secure?

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 26 August 2012 16:39, Hal Ashburner <hal.ashburner at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll bite.
> How do i create or choose a secure password? All this reading of this
> discussion among people with clue(tm) and I've missed the consensus...
>
> I hate that web rejection for 'you can't use that password it needs a cap,
> a number and punctuation and can only be 8 letters long.' Banks...

Whereas all I get is 6 digits, but that's OK, you have to "type" that
in by clicking on a number pad where the positions are randomised, so
that _must_ be secure [1], right?!?

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20090627165403/http://www.tracingbug.com/index.php/articles/view/23.html
(original site seems to be down)

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