On 4/16/07, gjzilla@gmail.com gjzilla@gmail.com wrote:
STEP 1: USE A PASSWORD WITH A COMBINATION OF LETTERS, NUMBERS, AND SYMBOLS.
Fails to provide protection against key logging and in transit interception.
STEP 2: CHANGE IT FREQUENTLY.
Um no really bad idea since people tend to respond by either following fairly simple formulas or writing the thing down.
There. Problem solved.
No. Although people's belief that it is under this conditions is another security flaw (I'm increasingly convinced that passwords as a whole are a security flaw but wikimedia is not really in a position to fix that).