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No password safer than weak password?!
I couldn't quite believe the headline Set a Blank Password in Windows XP To Protect the Computer from Internet Attacks but it seems that there might actually be something in this.
If there is no password on an account it cannot be accessed over the network or internet. There is still the question of physical security but this is less of a problem at home. Unless you want to run parental controls software. Or your house is broken into, as we heard in an email into the office a couple of days ago.
Given that most people end up using simple passwords for an easy life, this advice is fairly good. But I would still recommend people to create a strong password (upper and lower case, numbers and even extra characters like !"£$% if allowed).
And never, ever, ever leave a notebook without a password when out and about.
Posted by Tim Smith on March 11, 2008 | Permalink
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