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Dr James P. Howard, II
A Mathematician, a Different Kind of Mathematician, and a Statistician

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Password Requirements

This pretty well sums it up, and everyone’s encountering the worst in the wake of Heartbleed. These types of password requirements are misguided and out of proportion. The password for my bank account can be five lower-case letters, but for a genre-films forum hosted by a kid in his parents’ basement, it’s more complex than the nuclear launch codes.

Now I’m gonna add a gang sign to my password on Twitter.