RE: [fw-wiz] Stanford break in

From: Paul D. Robertson (paul_at_compuwar.net)
Date: 04/23/04

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    To: Laura Taylor <ltaylor@relevanttechnologies.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:15:30 -0400 (EDT)

    On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Laura Taylor wrote:

    > You need some user behavior/rules of engagement policies to deal with users
    > bringing home password files and cracking them. And they should be enforced.
    > Laura

    Ron's main point (I think) is that you can't enforce strong password
    policies everywhere in an organization, so folks who want to circumvent
    those policies will do so, and the net result of stronger passwords is
    lost. Non-trivial passwords, I agree with, but "strong passwords" really
    just piss off users without much overall affect to the organization's
    security posture if there's enough disparate system types (or if users
    simply use that password everywhere so they can remember it.)

    Paul
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