Comments on: Password, it’s just not obvious to normal people

By: dazza

dazza — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:56:25 +0000

I did change his password and he wrote it in a little black book. I will be setting him up with Password Safe the next time I am around. Maybe I’ll give passpack a try.

Persoanlly I use 1Password which is an excellent plugin for OS X.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:48:00 +0000

Hey,

The question is, did you set him up with a strong password, including numbers, punctuation, etc? If so, make sure he doesn’t lose the post-it note with it on.

Tom

By: Louise

Louise — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:30:31 +0000

Linguistically speaking, you’re completely right. The word password is…well…a word.
Unfortunately words don’t seem to cut it anymore when it comes to security.

I work for Passpack which is an online password manager and our double authentication uses a ‘Pass Phrase’ and a ‘Packing Key’.

Changing the word sometimes makes the concept easier to understand.

Louise