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Thursday, December 07, 2006

Strong passwords policy = Security weakness?

Interesting point by Michael Sutton: Forcing people to use passwords they can't remember leads to them writing their password on sticky notes. Sticked where? On their monitor of course!

Sunday, December 03, 2006

The Twelve Networking Truths

RFC 1925 (The Twelve Networking Truths) is a short yet interesting reading. I believe it applies to Software Engineering in general and not only to Networking in particular.

Rule #3 is probably the most instructive:

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.

[Edit Dec 5th: Updated link]