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For a good article on how easy seemingly "good" passwords can be broken and how
to pick a strong and memorable password, see Fred Langa's "How to Build Better
Passwords" in Information Week.
The Simplest Security: A Guide To Better Password Practices
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1537
Microsoft: How to Create Stronger Passwords
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/password.asp
Password Security Guide
http://www.umich.edu/-policies/pw-security.html
Fred Langa: How to Build Better Passwords
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticie.jhtml?articleID=164303537
"Law #5: Weak passwords trump strong security. "
Use Desktop Tools with Care
The past few years we have witnessed an explosion in new tools that can be
downloaded for free and, in many cases, integrated into the user's browser or
operating system. The highest profile of these applications was desktop search.
Microsoft, Yahoo, and Ask all have some version of desktop search and there are
other smaller companies such as Copernic, X1 Technologies, and Blinkx offering
desktop search technology as well. However, Google's product garnered the most
attention and generated the greatest controversy. According to Google, its Google
Desktop is an "application that provides full text search over your email, computer
files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you've viewed." Google Desktop now
also indexes the entire content of PDF files and the metadata of multimedia files. In
August 2005 Google introduced Google Desktop 2 in beta and dropped "Search"
from its name because it does much more than just search. According to Google,
"Google Desktop [2.0] doesn't just help you search your computer; it also helps you
gather new information from the web with Sidebar, a new desktop feature that shows
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