Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!85.12.16.69.MISMATCH!peer02.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer03.fr7!futter-mich.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx11.fr7.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: [CM] study: no correlation between intelligence and password strength Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.security.misc Message-ID: Lines: 32 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blocknews.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 12:00:05 UTC Organization: blocknews - www.blocknews.net Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 11:59:16 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 2645 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3541373997 X-Original-Bytes: 2594 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:15925 comp.security.misc:1275 From the «you be me, i'll be you» department: Title: Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds Author: help@slashdot.org Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 17:41:00 -0400 Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KtHJcXda-9o/smarter-people-dont-have-better-passwords-study-finds An anonymous reader shares a report: A study carried out at a college in the Philippines shows that students with better grades use bad passwords in the same proportion as students with bad ones. The study's focused around a new rule added to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guideline for choosing secure passwords -- added in its 2017 edition. The NIST recommendation was that websites check if a user's supplied password was compromised before by verifying if the password is also listed in previous public breaches. If the password is included in previous breaches, the website is to consider the password insecure because all of these exposed passwords have most likely been added to even the most basic password-guessing brute-forcing tools. [image 2][2][image 4][4][image 6][6] Read more of this story[7] at Slashdot. [image 8] Links: [1]: http://twitter.com/home?status=Smarter+People+Don't+Have+Better+Passwords%2C+Study+Finds%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2IlW0sE (link) [2]: https://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (image) [3]: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F18%2F05%2F15%2F196222%2Fsmarter-people-dont-have-better-passwords-study-finds%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook (link) [4]: https://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (image) [5]: http://plus.google.com/share?url=https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/05/15/196222/smarter-people-dont-have-better-passwords-study-finds?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus (link) [6]: https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (image) [7]: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/05/15/196222/smarter-people-dont-have-better-passwords-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed (link) [8]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/KtHJcXda-9o (image)