On a torturous path from Eleanor Clift’s Newsweek article today (4-18-08), and an op-ed piece in the Washington Post by Democratic pollster Doug Shoen (4-16-08), we arrive at the long-expected point where nut-cutting takes place in the Democratic marathon for the nomination.
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Password policies are dumb.
OK, well, maybe not always. But overly complex password policies are dumb. For example, the Tennessee Board of Regents – the governing body over my institution, East Tennessee State University – has recently instituted the following policy:

The password must be at least 8 characters.
The password must use characters from three of the [...]

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