It's Spring. America is watching baseball. I'm having morning coffee, tweeting with #infosec colleagues in one browser window while reviewing my Rotisserie team's lamentable batting average in another.
Colleague Brian Honan retweets Dr. Jessica Barker's post, Talking Passwords on BBC's The One Show. I'm reminded of Terry Cashman's memorable song, Talkin' Baseball, and thinking, "Jessica's password insights might imprint more firmly if she had used poetry (especially in Brooklyn):
Talkin' Passwords
The Whiz Kids have cracked 'em,
Bad admins don't hash them.
And Yogi read the comics all the while1.
Rock 'n roll was being born,
Passwords were used with scorn.
So in the deep dark chatrooms
Internet logins were put on trial.
We're talkin' passwords,
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Heartbleed is appalling,
Ten word sound bites falling,
Change your passwords chanting has begun.
Phishers see a green field.
Password spam's a big yield.
And the NSA was the only one winning down in Washington.
We're talkin' passwords,
Some numbahs and some lettahs,
Talkin' passwords,
Mak'em longah they'll be bettah.
Birthdays, kid's or pet's names are the nix.
A comma, dash, or hashtag in the mix.
Especially long ones, really do the trick!
1 I could not bring myself to remove Yogi Berra from the song.
That would be nearly as bad as composing Talkin' Cricket.
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