Comments on: American Express’s Security Problem: Awful password system

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:48:58 +0000

I just complained to AMEX about their password policy, they stated they are “unable” to change it! Have the got an amateur coder or something? I am forced to either write my password down, or use an unsecure easy to remember one because they wont allow me to use a secure password that I DO remember.

By: Andrew Taylor

Andrew Taylor — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:59:04 +0000

See their “explanation” at http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/02/amex_password_policies_declare.php

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By: Tom Human

Tom Human — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:12:59 +0000

Why do you believe that a concatenation of dictionary words isn’t secure?

If you have a 100,000 word dictionary, then there are 10 billion choices of two words, a quadrillion choices of three words. What dictionary attack will get a password like that?

Plenty of places have stupid passwords. A Major Brokerage Firm uses 6-8 characters, lower case, no punctuation, must contain a number, and that number can’t be at the start or end of the password. That rule is so restrictive it’s almost impossible to come up with a password at all!

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uberVU - social comments — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:31:43 +0000

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