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NIST recently published their four-volume SP800-63-3 Digital Identity Guidelines. Among other things, they make three important suggestions when it comes to passwords:
-Stop it with the annoying password complexity rules. They make passwords harder to remember. They increase errors because artificially complex passwords are harder to type in. And they don't help that much. It's better to allow people to use pass phrases.
-Stop it with password expiration. That was an old idea for an old way we used computers. Today, don't make people change their passwords unless there's indication of compromise.
-Let people use password managers. This is how we deal with all the passwords we need.
These password rules were failed attempts to fix the user. Better we fix the security systems.
Does this mean we can stop composing our passwords like Q*bert?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @10:23PM (3 children)
There's this thing called life that relied on genuine human interaction, unfortunately facebook have yet to offer this service to their users (AKA: product).
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 10 2017, @10:49PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @11:57PM (1 child)
Sometimes people use Facebook to arrange in-person meetings, do they not? In which case, an hour's delay in communicating could be a problem.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anal Pumpernickel on Wednesday October 11 2017, @08:45AM
Regardless of what reasons people have for allowing themselves to be used by the monstrous surveillance engine known as Facebook, they are fools for doing so.