Just as an aside, I heard yesterday that President Teddy Roosevelt issued 1000 executive orders, one of which was to require that words be spelled phonetically as in “ENUF” instead of enough! Enuf sed!!!
Murray From: Kurt Buff Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 2:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [Bulk] Re: Progress in password cracking Be careful - your inner curmudgeon is starting to show... But, it probably won't make a difference after a while - most people tend to misspell things the same way, or in a limited number of ways, and that will fall to analysis as well... Kurt On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Andrew S. Baker <asbz...@gmail.com> wrote: This must be great news to all the people under the age of 20, who seem quite unable to either spell or use grammatically correct sentences. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market… On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: Grammar badness makes cracking harder the long password Password crackers get an English lesson. by Dan Goodin Jan 24 2013 Ars Technica When it comes to long phrases used to defeat recent advances in password cracking, bigger isn't necessarily better, particularly when the phrases adhere to grammatical rules. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/grammar-badness-makes-cracking-harder-the-long-password/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin