July 23, 2003

Trustworthy?

I'm trying to square this:

"Six months ago, I sent a call-to-action to Microsoft's 50,000 employees, outlining what I believe is the highest priority for the company and for our industry over the next decade: building a Trustworthy Computing environment for customers that is as reliable as the electricity that powers our homes and businesses today."

— Bill Gates, July 2003

with this:

"Windows passwords are not very good. The problem with [them] is that they do not include any random information."

— Philippe Oechslin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology after developing a method to break Windows passwords in an average of 13.6 seconds

Any ideas?

Posted by timo at July 23, 2003 09:56 PM | TrackBack
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