Robert Martis
Joined: 14 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 4:28 pm Post subject: Jotting Down Passwords is Better than Using One for All |
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Write down your passwords: It's better than using the same one for all...
Companies should not ban employees from writing down their passwords, because it forces users to use the same weak term on many systems.
Jesper Johansson, senior programme manager for security policy at Microsoft, said the security industry had been giving out the wrong advice to users by telling them not to write down their passwords: "I claim that password policy should say you should write down your password. I have 68 different passwords. If I am not allowed to write any of them down, guess what I am going to do? I am going to use the same password on every one of them," he said.
Storing all personal passwords in an encrypted file may be a solution for IT administrators. However, storing a password list in an encrypted file may not work for users because they would then forget the password to decrypt the password file.
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