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Story: NASA hacker is no Neo

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Posted by: Tony (Tuesday 21 June 2005, 11:29 AM)

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A system that is required to have the best security surely should have some checks to stop people having potentially weak passwords. It's not rocket science. Simply requiring the password to be 10 letters minimum and contain at least 2 numbers would eliminate this problem.

Just by the fact that some users have the password "password" means that the head of security is not actually the head of security but probably just an upgraded politician with no clue of security whatsoever.

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