Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Ah what an innocent time it was...

In the 1983 film “War Games,” the computer controlling the launching of all of our nuclear missiles was hacked by a teenager who correctly deduced that the system’s designer might well have used as his password the name of his deceased child, Joshua.

Not: Joshua1 or joshU1a or josh#Ua1 Just plain old simple… Joshua.

Now my passwords are mandatory alphanumeric, mix upper and lower case, contain some wacky symbol, and must be changed every 45 days. And if I don’t do this, I am taken out and shot. (OK, I lied about that last part but you get my point….)

BILL

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