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What a load of whining rubbish. Anyone who thinks a short password is secure in this day and age is nuts - particularly as just such individuals re-use passwor
by bdfh42 15y ago
What a load of whining rubbish.
Anyone who thinks a short password is secure in this day and age is nuts - particularly as just such individuals re-use passwords across services.
This person would be the first to decry SO if there was any breach of security caused by bad password choice.
- edawerd 15y agoThe intention of the post was not to whine about the password complexity. Quite the opposite, I think Stack Overflow's strategy is a brilliant way to get you to login/register using Facebook.
- gregbair 15y agoBut why do you single out Facebook? They offer a total of 15(!!!) ways to log in, including traditional and any form of OpenID. It really does smell like link-bait by singling out two large sites.
- bdfh42 15y agoRead their blogs and you will see that SO is keen that you use any available OpenID provider to log in to their site - they have no interest in any one such provider. Should you have persevered through the terribly difficult task of establishing a password with them then - wow- you would have had a new OpenID you could have used at other sites - without creating yet another username/password combination. These guys are doing you a favour at their (small) expense and you see it as some sort of con. Some word combination of horse teeth and gift comes to mind - but whingers there will always be.