Re: BEWARE! PHishing Expedition!

Leon Fisk <lfisk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:37:59 -0600, Jon Elson
<jmelson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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I also made the password even harder to guess, essentially gibberish!
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The best, hardest to crack, easy to remember passwords are
simply long phrases. Like:

"my favorite car was a 1973 chevy elcamino"

Unless the system merely uses the first 7 or 8 characters, and truncates the rest.
.

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