Re: Minimum password length

From: Booth Martin <Booth@MartinVT.com>

Sure it will be effective.  Its not worse than what you were 
doing before, and what you were doing before was effective. 
The only possible downside is that it will cause a few more 
people to write their passwords on the side of the monitor.

---> and that is the problem and is why it is less effective.
 
The other possible meaning of "be effective"  is "Will it get the home
office guy off the hook with his Auditor people who obviously don't know
squat about security?"  I'd guess the answer to that is "yes" too.

---> and that is an unethical attitude. The objective is not
to keep some auditor off your back by sticking him with a lie,
but to actually mprove security.