Posts Tagged ‘stupid’

Massey University: out of touch with the real world

A policy on passwords like the one that Massey University has is worse than no policy at all.  Of course, when I was there, they forced students to have a four-digit number as their password, despite the fact that doing so violated their own policy, so I guess it’s expected that this will be ignored. Particularly bad [...]

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ihug: less clever than the scammers

A warning from ihug – unfortunately they aren’t clever enough to test their emails before sending them, so that variables like %name% get filled out.  A shame that their email then looks more like a scam than most scams do… (FWIW, anyone thinking of using ihug should think again – not because of this, but because [...]

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