Re: [Fwd: [Rhic-rcf-l] Three passwords at the RCF]

From: Christian Holm Christensen (cholm@hehi03.nbi.dk)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 10:21:58 EST

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    Hi Flemming et al, 
    
    On Mon, 05 Nov 2001 10:08:42 -0500
    Flemming Videbaek <videbaek@sgs1.hirg.bnl.gov> wrote
    concerning "[Fwd: [Rhic-rcf-l] Three passwords at the RCF]":
    > Please read the enclosed message carefully - I did spot a few Brahms
    > collaboirators (murray, Sanders, wada) but the is also a referecen
    > to another list - so  please check it out. or your afs and or rcf
    > account may disappear (not only blocked). 
    
    I think that practise of RCF posting the user with "weak" passwords is
    almost as big a security risk as the actual "weak" passwords, since it
    effectively opens a window for potential crackers (not hackers,
    crackers!).  I'd like to urge our representive at RCF to get them to
    change practise and instead notify people directly, either via email
    or snail-mail.   It's rather stunning that the paranoid RCF has such
    an blatenly insecure practise. 
    
    Yours, 
    
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