Microsoft Security Expert: Write down your password
Filed in: Security — May 24th, 2005
Companies should not ban employees from writing down their passwords because such bans force people to use the same weak term on many systems, according to a Microsoft security guru.
“How many have (a) password policy that says under penalty of death you shall not write down your password?” asked Johansson, to which the majority of attendees raised their hands in agreement. “I claim that is absolutely wrong. I claim that password policy should say you should write down your password. I have 68 different passwords. If I am not allowed to write any of them down, guess what I am going to do? I am going to use the same password on every one of them.”
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Thought:
He got his point. what about you? Do you write down passwords? I know a friend, he use single password for ALL password fields.
