On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 07:52:53AM -0800, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2015-02-03, Scott Robbins <scottro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 01:53:45PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >>
> >> The first is "Don't use a palindrome"
> >> which makes me wonder if the author knows the meaning of this word.
> >> I suspect he/she thinks it means "a known word backwards".
> >
> > That's what I would call it (or phrase or sequence of numbers.) When I
> > read your post, I thought I was missing something, but some cursory
> > googling indicates that I'm right. What am I missing here?
>
> I don't think anybody is missing anything. "Palindrome" in this context
> may not be limited to real words; the author may be suggesting that you
> not pick your password by picking a real word and tacking on its
> reverse to make a palindrome, e.g., "password1drowssap".
>
Ah, that makes sense then, thanks.
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