According to a recent article on macosxhints.com, the random password generator widgets may not be so random after all. Apparently, the JavaScript call Math.random() is quite repetitive in its creation of passwords. I was delighted when I found a widget that destroyed my only excuse for using the same password over and over again, but after reading this article, I have gone in an changed all my passwords to ones created with the OS X password creator assistant in the Users preference pane.
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