On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 14:31 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > Ah, I'm a little confused. > > All that was requested was a change of password. This doesn't stop Joe > Public from signing up and accessing bugzilla, and presumably doesn't > stop Joe from viewing leaky NDA's. > > All it seems to do is make me have to change a password. > > Surely if there are leaks using the old password, then there's still > leaks with my new password (which is actually my old password since I > went back in and changed it back). There is a theory that changing passwords on a regular bases lessens the risk of somebody's password being stolen and used nefariously. Depending on the account compromised the damage increases from nuisance to legally damaging. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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