Re: TGP Password Strength Checker online

On 2010-07-13 Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
I've been thinking about standing up the Password Strength Checker
tool in TGP online, so here it is:

https://www.hammerofgod.com/passwordcheck.aspx

Please do *not* encourage people to enter their passwords on random
websites. It was already a bad idea when Microsoft did this, and unlike
good Whisky, the idea didn't get better with time.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
--
"All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches
becoming available."
--Jason Coombs on Bugtraq

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