This month's Law Practice magazine brings an interesting feature from Sharon Nelson and John Simek titled Creating Secure Passwords: The Rules Have Changes (Again). They cite some researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology who put together some fast CPU's with clusters of graphics cards to crack eight-character passwords in less than two hours.

A PDF file created from a Microsoft Word document contains less metadata than the original Word document. There is less potentially embarassing metadata, like deleted comments. For a lawyer, perhaps the scariest type of metadata would be a comment made by a client on a document that was then deleted, but might be somehow viewed…