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Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljebotn at astro.uio.no
Wed Sep 4 21:20:51 CEST 2013


On 09/04/2013 04:59 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> That's the whole reason the content restrictions turn themselves off
>> once the password hits 16 characters: passphrases are easy to
>> remember, and generally quite secure. So, no, "it's easy to remember"
>> is not an adequate excuse for choosing a poor password for a service
>> that has a lot of other people depending on its integrity.
>
> Then please add helpful guidelines as to how people can choose a safe
> and easy to remember password /or passphrase/. Most people aren't password
> experts, and the current one-line message isn't useful.

A link here should do the trick (which succinctly sums up this entire 
thread):

https://xkcd.com/936/

(Apologies if I missed another reference to it.)

Dag Sverre


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