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-The sheer number of applications for which the average person is asked to use a password exceeds the powers of human memory |
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-This often results in using the same passwords for different purposes |
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Revision as of 20:12, 8 November 2004
A frequent source of severe design errors can be fast built systems, developed by unskilled people:
-Identification for example by your “mother’s maiden name”, which is easy for the thief to find out from birth or marriage records
-The sheer number of applications for which the average person is asked to use a password exceeds the powers of human memory
-This often results in using the same passwords for different purposes
Example:
A Bad Mnemonic System for Saving Pins
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