[TUHS] Recovered /etc/passwd files

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Fri Oct 11 16:24:05 AEST 2019


On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Nemo wrote:

> Some (large) companies regularly run password crackers on their 
> employees' passwords and inform them if their passwords are found 
> "insufficiently strong to protect company assets".

An ex-employer of mine (not the reason I left) used to do just that.

> Good, bad, distasteful, prudent, off-topic?

Depends :-)

-- Dave


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