On Monday, 4 March 2024 10:43:59 CET Holger Wansing wrote: > >Regarding the password advice, I ended up concluding that it's pretty > >unlikely that anything we say at this point will have any effect on > >people's behaviour, but then I'm probably just an old cynic. Also, I > >failed when trying to come up with a wording which I was happy with, > >which is why I ended up discarding the advice entirely. > > > >If we want to keep the password advice in then I think what you wrote is > >(mostly) OK, although I think it implies that one should be choosing a > >single "password" (although, not a word in any normal sense), which > >could be argued to steer people away from the perfectly decent xkcd > >approach of using several dictionary words. Saying "Password or > >Passphrase" at least once would probably address that. > > Ok, makes it a bit longer, but it could be worth it. https://wiki.debian.org/Passwords doesn't exist (yet), but it's an easy to remember URL and we'd have all the space we need to give proper advise?
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