DoSTOR June27,2008--You're reading analysis on misunderstanding of China Storage users series: Report 3(also the last report of this series) Using birthday as password.
Using birthday as passport has been criticized as "the most stupid passport". Though it would not happen in enterprises, however just rely on password, or simple safety insurance will probably cause security issues. Losing disk is no longer infrequent recently, on the contrary, we have heard so many accidents.
For example late last year, two disks containing personal details of 25 million people were lost in England by that country's equivalent of the IRS. The University of Miami and the University lost two backup tapes containing medical data and Social Security numbers on some 47,000 people.
Besides that, many companies using Exchange as e-mail system and open the Exchange's Web mail service---surprisingly, people often use "123" (without quotation marks, and maybe it's safer if quoted) as password. That's so easy that others can decode it easily. This phenomenon is related to lack of security consciousness.
The key point to ensure data security is enhancing security awareness, which would guide people pay important attention to data safety. At present, Chinese users' encrypting consciousness is quite weak.
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