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Password Reuse

I’ve mentioned Troy Hunt’s writings here before. Hunt writes regularly on security and always has something interesting to say. Last year I wrote about Hunt’s analysis of passwords from the Sony compromise and—sorry but it’s true—the stupid choices people make … Continue reading

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Password Advice

There’s been a lot of snark going around the last few days over this password help screen from the Texas Attorney General’s Child Support Services Web Page. Child Support Services are, of course, doing the best they can to preserve … Continue reading

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An Implementation of Diceware

A few of my recent posts (1, 2, 3) discussed the Diceware method of choosing a password. The idea is that you roll a die 5 times to get a 5 digit number and use that number to look up … Continue reading

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How People Select Their Passwords

The invaluable Troy Hunt has run another analysis of recent dumps of password data from Anonymous, LulzSec, and others. This time he looks at how people select their passwords. As with his previous analyses, the results are depressing. His idea … Continue reading

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More Password Analysis

A week ago I wrote about the analysis of the Gawker passwords. Now Troy Hunt has provided a similar analysis based on the SonyPictures.com compromise. He looked at 37,608 accounts from the LulzSec torrent and analyzed the passwords for Length … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Copilot and Copyrights

Three weeks ago I wrote in Red Meat Friday: VS Code As A Venus Flytrap about Geoffrey Huntley’s post on how VS Code is all part of Microsoft’s plan to destroy open source and pull everyone into software as a … Continue reading

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