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April 12, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Buy this book on Passwords!

Mark Burnett's 'Perfect Passwords' is a must read for system administrators.

Mark has made a great, quick, must-read book on passwords. I had read a few chapters of it before it was published (my quote is on the back cover), and liked it, but the overall book should be read by all system administrators. It contains commonsense, practical advice, just more of it than most of us have thought about alone-all in one place.

I think every system administrator will see one or two of their own personal passwords in the book...which is a wake-up call.

I was able to quickly read/skim the entire book, pull out all the useful tips in under an hour while my daughter was getting her braces tightened. A complete slow read would probably take a day. I think all system administrators should buy and understand this book.

Posted by Roger Grimes on April 12, 2006 09:09 AM


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I agree completely with the post above. I read the book cover to cover in a couple afternoons last week and was pleased to read something that has been injected with some humour and light anecdotal mix in a topic so notoriously dry and devoid of humour.
Wake up call or not...there is a wealth of information stored in one place in this book and it is as good a read as listening to Jesper Johansson in live and living colour !

Posted by: Richard Blackham at April 17, 2006 02:02 PM

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