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Your password for chocolate please

alleepally · 2004-04-20 15:33:17

Couldn't help laugh at this. For anyone working in IT who thinks all those emails and notices about keeping passwords secure actually work... All it takes is the a little bribe! http://www.securitypipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=18902074&printableArticle=true

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20-04-2004 4:33pm

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alleepally

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Couldn't help laugh at this. For anyone working in IT who thinks all those emails and notices about keeping passwords secure actually work... All it takes is the a little bribe!

http://www.securitypipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=18902074&printableArticle=true

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#2 20-04-2004 4:41pm
Sleipnir

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that's pretty bloody amazing alright. Jeez.......

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#3 20-04-2004 4:44pm
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Not too surprising. Nobody would give the keys to theri office for a bar of chocolate, but the attitude hasn't been enforced that a password is the equivalent of an office key. Even more important in some cases.

one systems administrator used 40 passwords, which he stored using a program he wrote himself to keep them secure.

Sounds good, but those 40 passwords are only as secure as the password he uses to login to his custom program.

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