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Too Many Passwords
LK3 writes "A survey of 1700 technology end users in the United States released today reveals some interesting findings about password management habits. 'The results suggest that having to juggle multiple passwords causes users to compensate with risky security techniques and creates a drain on productivity by taxing the resources of IT support centers.' Further, corporate requirements of frequent password replacement further exacerbates the toll on human memory. Is the solution a master password, with all of the potential problems that represents, or biometrics, or are we stuck with post-it notes and a call to the help desk?"
I have a very very clever comment to add to that thread, but I forgot my password :(
(maybe "bank" for my bank for example) which gives me a password of: ?pE94$vw
So could you please elaborate on this and also tell us how you remember other pieces of information, say, like, I don't know, just for example, your PIN, account number, and which bank you use? Just curious...
To steal an old post to an old comment -- that's a very interesting perl program...could you post the output instead of the well-written perl code, though?