The Psychology of Passwords

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The Psychology of Passwords 492

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday June 29, 2001 @02:58PM from the thats-pretty-wacky dept.

afabbro writes "According to this study, people's password choices put them into four groups: "Family", "Fan", "Self-Obsessed", or "Cryptic". I'm sure we're all good Cryptics here...now if only my users would stop being "Family"." And then there's the category "Stupid" for the zillions who use "Trustno1", "Swordfish", and "Password",

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