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...e its use. > >> and at a much higher rate than vaccines not working. > > I thought you threw out a 95% number for vaccine effectiveness above. You are saying that more than 5% of all computers with strong passphrases are currently infected with something? Prove it. Define strong. Diceware puts the minimum for large botnet protection at 5 word passphrases. 6 word passphrases for protection against a government entity. Your idea of strong thus far is 9 characters which seems to be b.s. today and certainly laughable in 6 years when we do the autopsy on today's policy successes and...

...er password, today. Let > alone 6 years from now. 6 years from now, the maximum speed of guessing passwords against an ssh server will be exactly the same as it is today. The server imposes delays on failure and maximum connection numbers. With those mechanisms, the rate is constant. > Diceware puts the minimum for large botnet protection > at 5 word passphrases. 6 word passphrases for protection against a > government entity. Your idea of strong thus far is 9 characters which > seems to be b.s. today and certainly laughable in 6 years when we do > the autopsy on today's p...

Has anyone seen or created a password strength meter, or password strength validator (like at hotmail''s sign up)? Examples would be great! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060804/14a94764/attachment.html

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote: > Security is *always* opposed to convenience. False. OS X by default runs only signed binaries, and if they come from the App Store they run in a sandbox. User gains significant security with this, and are completely unaware of it. There is no inconvenience. What is the inconvenience of encrypting your device