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Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-password-is-hershey dept.

RonnyJ writes "The BBC is reporting that, according to a recent survey, more than 70% of people would willingly give up their computer password in exchange for as little as a bar of chocolate. Over a third of the people surveyed even gave out their password without having to be bribed, and most indicated that they were fed up with having to use passwords."

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  1. A big problem... by Lord_Frederick · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...at many of the places I've worked at is that the users have as many as a dozen passwords to remember for different systems, and each one expires at a different time and has different rules for how long and complex it has to be.

    Most of them keep their passwords written down on a sheet of paper right on their desk.

  2. Re:Passwords and memory by mrwonka · · Score: 5, Informative

    try passwordsafe

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/

  3. Re:This doesn't surprise me at all... by GigsVT · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hah, no, it means they are keeping your plain text password in a database somewhere, instead of only keeping an unreversible hash like they should.

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