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Re:A password for the Hawaii emergency agency was hiding in ... by throwacide on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:47PM (#16162365)
“Pencil” Reference to wargames of course. Passwords are fundamentally broken. Don’t blame the post it note nor the person making it. Blame the concept of passwords.
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Re:A password for the Hawaii emergency agency was hiding in ... by craftyguy on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:28PM (#16162807)
Passwords are not fundamentally broken.

IT departments that apply arbitrary constraints to passwords are fundamentally broken. Users that do not use password management, which allows easily creating unique, strong passwords for everything, are using a fundamentally broken workflow.

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