Comment Isn't this a moot discussion? (Score 1) 429
This entire discussion is somewhat moot because it's like trying to figure out the meaning of life. Everyone has different ideas on it, and none is truly "right", but many are right for that person at that particular time.
This reminds me of an episode of Get Smart years ago. Agent 99 was locking herself into her apartment because a Kaos agent had chased her home. She locked this column of strong deadbolts running up and down the length of the door. The Kaos agent proceeded to punch through the wall next to the door and get right in.
The point is, many, if not most, of the major 'hacks' you hear about on the news are not the result of some magic password-cracking algorithim or some super-programmer's deep knowledge of low-level machine language that enabled him to get in. It's usually something simple like a disgruntled employee accepting some cash (there aren't any disgruntled, underpaid network admins out there, are there??) for his or someone else's password, or some other 'side door'.
If your data is so important that you're going to make it so diffucult for all your users to remember some ridiculous password for every task they do at work, then your data is worth some hacker finding some other, easier way in--just as the Kaos agent did. --timmy
This reminds me of an episode of Get Smart years ago. Agent 99 was locking herself into her apartment because a Kaos agent had chased her home. She locked this column of strong deadbolts running up and down the length of the door. The Kaos agent proceeded to punch through the wall next to the door and get right in.
The point is, many, if not most, of the major 'hacks' you hear about on the news are not the result of some magic password-cracking algorithim or some super-programmer's deep knowledge of low-level machine language that enabled him to get in. It's usually something simple like a disgruntled employee accepting some cash (there aren't any disgruntled, underpaid network admins out there, are there??) for his or someone else's password, or some other 'side door'.
If your data is so important that you're going to make it so diffucult for all your users to remember some ridiculous password for every task they do at work, then your data is worth some hacker finding some other, easier way in--just as the Kaos agent did. --timmy
