Items tagged passwords in 2007
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Historically, Internet companies have rarely encrypted passwords to aid customer service.
— Fasthosts # 18th October 2007, 5:27 pm
The password anti-pattern. What I don’t understand is why Google / Yahoo! / other webmail providers haven’t just deployed a simple OAuth-style API for accessing the address book. Sites have been scraping them for years anyway; surely it’s better to offer an official API than continue to see users hand out their passwords? # 12th October 2007, 9:25 am
Choosing Secure Passwords. Bruce Schneier describes the state of the art in password cracking software. # 11th January 2007, 2:55 pm
ephemeral profiles (cuz losing passwords is common amongst teens). Lost your password? Create a new profile; you had too many friends you didn’t know anyway. # 7th January 2007, 10:37 pm