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Quotes of the week-- xkcd
Hint to distributions and software developers: if you're going to
use libavcodec (or libavformat, etc.) for your project, consider
restricting the default build to include only *commonly* used
codecs and demuxers. The code quality of many of the more obscure
formats is questionable at best.
-- Dan Rosenberg(Log in to post comments)
Quotes of the week Posted Aug 11, 2011 6:50 UTC (Thu) by mbar (subscriber, #73813) [Link]
xkcd: best security quote ever.
Quotes of the week Posted Aug 11, 2011 8:46 UTC (Thu) by etienne (subscriber, #25256) [Link]
xkcd: and look at these other-OS password checker which refuses a space in a password because then it is not a word...
Quotes of the week Posted Aug 11, 2011 13:06 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Not really a problem, just use underscores of dashes instead of spaces. Length limitations are much more annoying, though.
/me happily uses keyphrases instead of passwords since 1995.
Quotes of the week Posted Aug 13, 2011 2:31 UTC (Sat) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]
Or just don't use separators at all. Separators help to read sentences, not to write them, and you can't read the password anyway. :)
The problem is all the stupid-ass sites and software that puts a maximum length limit on your password despite the fact that the entirety of it is just thrown away during the hash step anyway (or at least you hope to $deity that it's being thrown away).
Quotes of the week Posted Aug 13, 2011 20:15 UTC (Sat) by alecs1 (guest, #46699) [Link]
Oh, yeah, password length limitation is one of the most annoying things ever, and one of the few I actually wrote e-mails to editors. And it bit me many times, I use this shit system the xkcd describes and get often into trouble.
Quotes of the week Posted Aug 11, 2011 17:08 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
I predict that "correct horse battery staple" will become a statistically significant password (<a href="http://ask.yahoo.com/20041022.html">like these</a>).
Or maybe not; Yahoo does not allow the human race to be smarter than remembering 9 bits anyway. :)
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