Comments on: Even Russian spies have absurd password requirements http://www.naffziger.net/blog/2010/06/30/even-russian-spies-have-absurd-password-requirements/ Startups, Search & Seattle Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Henry Guibord http://www.naffziger.net/blog/2010/06/30/even-russian-spies-have-absurd-password-requirements/comment-page-1/#comment-7046 Henry Guibord Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:02:26 +0000 http://www.naffziger.net/blog/?p=778#comment-7046 I don't know why they wouldn't have just used a memorable phrase if that was the case - surely it is easier to remember a passage from a novel (maybe even switching out every third letter) than it would be to write down the password. It sounds rather suspicious and it may even be the case that they released a story about the password being written down to disguise their real source for the password... or maybe that's my tinfoil hat talking. I don't know why they wouldn't have just used a memorable phrase if that was the case – surely it is easier to remember a passage from a novel (maybe even switching out every third letter) than it would be to write down the password.

It sounds rather suspicious and it may even be the case that they released a story about the password being written down to disguise their real source for the password… or maybe that's my tinfoil hat talking.

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