[LINK] Millions of LinkedIn passwords leaked online

[Paul Brooks]

On 8/06/2012 5:40 PM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> On 8/06/12 7:58 AM, Glen Turner wrote:
>> Which isn't to say that Gumnuts password isn't better than 99% of them.
>> Which is the essential issue with passwords, and why we need to stop
>> using them and start using authentication devices and federated
>> authentication instead.
>>
> Glen - all too true, but excuse me on the basis that I wasn't actually 
> putting in the mental effort I would if I were creating a real password!

Besides, the result didn't include any digits or punctuation characters, so still
would not have been accepted as a suitable password by some of the more strict
password-change pages.

P.