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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Don't force random passwords on people!
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Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 11:11:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 21 11:11:18 1984
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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What we've done to stop people using easily guessable passwords is to
write a little program that tries to guess them, and advertise that
we're running it all the time.  People didn't believe us until we got
four or five hits the first couple of days.  Then it was amazing how
the frequency of hits dropped off....
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 USA
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