Why Passwords Are Getting Easier to Crack

[Soren Bjornstad]

I'm going to do a security series over the next couple of weeks, inspired by last week's post. This week I'm taking a look at an Ars Technica article I read today, called "Why passwords have never been weaker -- and crackers have never been stronger."

It's a long article, but if you have a few minutes, I highly recommend it, especially if you're interested in security. The most important thing to take out of it, though, is that password cracking is making extremely rapid advancements--the past couple of years have brought nearly as much new information to the field as all the rest of cracking history combined.

Read on at <http://thetechnicalgeekery.com/?p=480>. (You can get a link to the Ars article there too, if you're interested.)

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Soren "scorchgeek" Bjornstad
http://www.thetechnicalgeekery.com