A good article on passwords...

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A good article on passwords...

11-20-2012, 07:21 PM

This is a long but thought provoking article on passwords. How secure is your password? Check out the sidebar on how easy it was to get into somebody's account.

"Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore"

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http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/
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11-20-2012, 09:54 PM

Passwords are easy to hack because people are predictable.

The way we daisy-chain accounts, with our email address doubling as a universal username, creates a single point of failure that can be exploited with devastating results.
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