http://tonyandrewmeyer.com/tags/university/Recent content in University 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>