On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 07:52:53AM -0800, Keith Keller wrote:
On 2015-02-03, Scott Robbins scottro@nyc.rr.com 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.