[Coco] Mystic BBS

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 29 20:21:59 EDT 2019


On 9/29/19 4:51 PM, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> Your password requirements are really terrible.
> 
> "7 characters, 1 capital letter, 3 numbers, 1 symbol" is a very
> insecure password scheme. It's bad enough that most people will write
> it down rather than try to remember a password that matches it --
> while simultaneously being very easy for a computer to guess. It's the
> opposite of a good password scheme, that being one that a person can
> memorize easily while being hard to guess.
> 
> I killed the new user session, it just wasn't worth completing.
> 

Not to mention that he is using protocols that pass that password
in the clear.

bill



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