http://tonyandrewmeyer.com/tags/stupid/Recent content in Stupid on Tony Andrew MeyerHugoen-nzFri, 04 Apr 2008 20:37:15 +1200http://tonyandrewmeyer.com/2008/04/04/massey-university-out-of-touch-with-the-real-world/Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:37:15 +1200http://tonyandrewmeyer.com/2008/04/04/massey-university-out-of-touch-with-the-real-world/<p>A policy on passwords like <a href="http://policyguide.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-us/profile/policy-guide/policies/information-technology/electronic-password-policy.cfm">the one that Massey University has</a> is worse than no policy at all.  Of course, when I was there, they f<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/writing/insecure.html">orced students to have a four-digit number as their password</a>, despite the fact that doing so violated their own policy, so I guess it&rsquo;s expected that this will be ignored. Particularly bad parts: passwords should</p> <blockquote> <p>Contain both upper and lower case characters [and] at least one digit and one punctuation character.</p>http://tonyandrewmeyer.com/2007/11/24/ihug-less-clever-than-the-scammers/Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:34:36 +1200http://tonyandrewmeyer.com/2007/11/24/ihug-less-clever-than-the-scammers/<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2175/2057894585_d4fae84db9_o.png" alt="Ihug Email Screenshot">A warning from ihug - unfortunately they aren&rsquo;t clever enough to test their emails before sending them, so that variables like %name% get filled out.  A shame that their email then looks more like a scam than most scams do&hellip; (FWIW, anyone thinking of using ihug should think again - not because of this, but because their customer service gets worse every year).</p>