There should be a national ‘Bill Burr Honesty After Safely Pensioned From My Government Job Day’.
http://gizmodo.com/the-guy-who-invented-those-annoying-password-rules-now-1797643987
We’ve all been forced to do it: create a password with at least so many characters, so many numbers, so many special characters, and maybe an uppercase letter. Guess what? The guy who invented these standards nearly 15 years ago now admits that they’re basically useless. He is also very sorry. Read the rest of this entry »

