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Lorrie Faith Cranor: What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?

TED Talks201400:17:41Creative Commons
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Lorrie Faith Cranor studied thousands of real passwords to figure out the surprising, very common mistakes that users -- and secured sites -- make to compromise security. And how, you may ask, did she study thousands of real passwords without compromising the security of any users? That's a story in itself. It's secret data worth knowing, especially if your password is 123456 ...

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TedTalks;TED;Talks;communication;privacy;security;technology;TEDxCMU;2014

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