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[Christian]

John Summerfield wrote:

> I've seen reports that, in fact, the most security breaches are
> perpetrated be people who have authorised access to the computer - people
> such as employees.

I've already given my opinion on the validity of these and their
relevancy today.  Re-read these posts.

> Makes sense; who has best access to BankWest computers? Who knows their
> systems best? Who knows best what might work?

BankWest computers make up an insignificant amount of the computers in
the world.

> Christian & Greg: which are the computers most conveniently located for
> you to attack?

I don't need to "attack" machines to which I have the root password.  I
think the people who tend to have this access on machines also tend to
be very interested in keeping those machines running securely.

> hmm. I wonder how many people have used (or tried to use) passwords such
> as god (much favoured in days gone by for root), eagles, dockers, kemp,
> footy?

I don't wonder this, it's not very interesting (or relevant).

> If you want something moderately secure for a password, choose a phrase:
> kempisaterricfootyplayer is much harder to guess than single words or sets
> of initials, but still quite easy to remember.

Ummm... thanks for the advice, John.