Nice little article on password security

From: atumd (atumd_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:06:59 GMT

Came across this little read the other day.

Nothing mind blowing, but it did remind me of some very basic things about
passwords.

After reading, I whipped out and ran john on some password files of mine
only to find I had about 5 accounts with terrbile passwords :o

http://www.voidyourwarranty.net/review.php?reviewid=PCSecurity-Part1

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