[aclug-L] Re: WeatherLab virus

[Chris Owen <owenc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Anne McCadden wrote:

> Very good question.  The people who had the most secure passwords
> should have recieved some type of reward. Maybe I was a teacher for
> too long, I keep wanting to reward good behavior.

Actually the "winning" 100 got a nagging email from us asking them to use
the user interface to change their password (even if they "changed" it to
what it was before) so we could capture it in plain text.  Not exactly the
positive reinforcement you were looking for but we didn't have a lot of
other choices at the point.

What we have considered doing is emailing the customers with the lamest
passwords and suggesting that they change them but we've pretty much
decided that would be chaos and most likely scare the bajebous out of
people.

Chris

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