Dear Linkedin,

Fri Jun 8 22:17:25 UTC 2012

On Jun 8, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Alec Muffett wrote:

>> PS: when security is hard, people simply don't do it. Blaming the victim
>> of poor engineering that leads people to not be able to perform best
>> practices is not the answer.
> 
> Passwords suck, but they are the best that we have at the moment in terms of being cheap and free from infrastructure - see http://goo.gl/3lggk
> 
> We've been in a bubble for the past few years, where Moore's law hardware had not quite caught up with the speed of SHA and MD5 password hashing throughput for effective brute force guessing; that bubble is well and truly burst.
> 
> Welcome back to 1995 where the advice is to change your passwords frequently, because it has a half-life of usefulness imposed upon it from (a) day to day external exposure and (b) the march of technology - and keep your hashing algorithms up to date, too.  See http://goo.gl/iL9EP for suggestions.
> 
> Have a nice weekend,
> 
> 	-a
> 

Would it really be that hard to release a coordinated One-Time Password system that consumers could readily use across multiple sites?

Owen