Re: Password "Hint" Feasibility -- MIDRANGE-L

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mkrouse@co.ottawa.mi.us wrote:
> 
> Call me paranoid, but it seems to me that you would be making it a lot
> easier for some unscrupulous insider (or even hacker) to get someone else's
> password.
> 
> Is your Help Desk really that busy that they can't handle the volume?  I
> know ours isn't.
> 

Now why do you say that ?? :)

Just because there will be people who make the hint the same as the
password ???

Password : BOB

Hint :  My Password is BOB

hmm -  I think you must be paranoid !!!

John Hall
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