
“Bill Burr didn’t really know much about how passwords worked back in 2003, when he wrote the manual. He certainly wasn’t a security expert. And now the retired 72-year-old bureaucrat wants to apologize.”
Read more: http://gizmodo.com/the-guy-who-invented-those-annoying-password-rules-now-1797643987
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