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Passwords and the catalogue of human error

Posted by William Heath in Humanity nature and activity, Murphy's Law, human error, people and passwords at February 10th, 2007

One thing that’s bound to go wrong is the sheer concatenation of human error - forgotten passwords and PINs, lost ID cards, poor data entry.

According to this BBC piece we have around 20 passwords each, growing at 20% a year.

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