Correct​horse​battery​staple – the guys at Dropbox are funny

Remember that famous xkcd cartoon, suggesting passphrases like “correcthorsebatterystaple” are harder for hackers to crack than the likes of “Tr0ub4dor&3”?

Well, I’m full of admiration for whoever the web developer was at Dropbox who implemented this on their sign-up form…

Turns out if you attempt to register “correcthorsebatterystaple” as your password on Dropbox, the site (quite rightly) objects…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry, having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, or drop him an email.