windows xp

Phew! - well that's all over then - what a relief

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Originally posted by David Stewart:
Phew! - well that's all over then - what a relief

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Seconded.

Matthew

Good man, well done.

Not enough people have the cojones to apologise.

Regards

Mike

Spending money I don't have on things I don't need.

Yes indeed.

Matthew, after the excesses of the previous umpteen pages of arguments (!) your last post was unexpectedly contrite and therefore to be applauded.

I wonder if Messrs Hughes and Patterson will follow suit....?

Regards,

JonR

QOTT nomination

Mike Hughes for:

"They do indeed have vulnerable systems but that also illustrates that passwords are not necessarily a solution. User training should be at least as high a priority. Thus Phil's advice about user behaviour is probably the most relevant on this thread. Interestingly, outside auditors with 30 years experience looked at the network in question and identified weak passwords as an issue but the enablement of F&PS on hosts that did neither was graded two levels higher as a security risk and requiring of an immediate network reconfiguration. Still, you always know better.

Your advice on passwords is excellent but I wonder if it goes far enough. The methodology you describe is well known in IT and other circles and generally very sound but there needs to be more emphasis on the fact that substituting numbers for letters in itself doesn't provide a secure password. Any logic basis for devising passwords is potentially vulnerable. Actually, it's probably better to say that, on a network, any attempt to leave password creation solely to users without adequate policies, introduces significant potential vulnerabilities.

Ideally, I like to memorise mine but I have a friend who has been able to show me how to hack all of my passwords. .The one that took longest to hack using various software was the one that had no connection to me personally; was randomly generated and took me about three days to memorise. That was a pain but it's been worth it."

This is absolutely the most sense written in this thread, so far.

Pingu,

You'll have to forgive my ignorance. What does QOTT mean?

JonR et al,

I am also happy to joining Matthew and Cliff in offering sincere apologies to all who have contributed, read and otherwise been entertained/bored rigid and so on. Guys, it's been emotional!!!

Mike

Mike,

Thanks.

Regards,

JonR

Mike

QOTT

Quote of the thread

Kind of an homage to Matthew. Of course he would have said

Q0TT

cj

W.1.R.1.B.N.T.B.A.C.

pint of Sam Smiths to the man that guesses this one.

So no pint for a QOTT then?

Sigh!!! All that work for nowt!!!

only if you can decrypt the password (!)

W.1.R.1.B.N.T.B.A.C.

Come on then Pingu. Neither myself, Cliff or Matthew have stepped forward on this one.

What does it mean?