Micro$oft’s password policy
Digging through Word’s help facility, I found this entry on password protecting a document (in Word 2000 Help, go to the Index, put ‘password-protection’ in the keywords, and click ‘About using passwords’ to see for yourself) :
When you create a password, write it down and keep it in a secure place. If you lose the password, you cannot open or gain access to the password-protected document.
And you wonder why virii run rampant and security is a joke with MS products. The Average Joe Computer User does this type of stuff anyways. Should this behavior really be encouraged? If Micro$oft is putting rubbish like this in their products, what does that tell you about their stance on security?
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