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Wednesday, January 02, 2002
http://www.iht.com/articles/43366.html Predictable Passwords Simplify a Hacker's Task Jennifer 8. Lee New York Times Service Computer passwords are supposed to be personal, disposable and discreet. But people become sentimentally attached to them or leave them taped underneath their keyboards or on their monitors, to the dismay of computer-security professionals worldwide.... "When you are thinking of something neutral to use as a password, whatever your obsession is will pop into your head," said Helen Petrie, a professor of human computer interaction at City University in London. "It's the new version of the inkblot or word-association test."...
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