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Re(think) Your Password

Posted by Brandon on 19th November 2009

Updated: August 20, 2009

As internet security issues continue to be brought to the surface, people who want user accounts on many web sites are being asked to come up with passwords that are more secure. They’re asked to do things like include both letters and numbers, as well as punctuation, to break up some of the logic behind figuring out people’s passwords through systematic guessing and brute force methods. This is great advice, but to me it sounds kind of difficult for the user to follow through with. Read the rest of this entry »

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