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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Interesting article on Password protection

https://medium.com/editors-picks/3a72ab8b17f4
What comes across strongly to me would appall most folks - the whole Internet thing is a sieve - and there doesn't seem to be any real solution to it - within context.  The whole password thing is a mess, this article explains that quite plainly, and its solution strikes me as absurd. The idea that each of us become imitators of the Voynich Manuscript to protect a credit card is silly.   Call me a hopeless Luddite, but I would much prefer that most important financial transactions and records be done through a good old fashioned paper method.  It seems like every week there is some new headline screaming that a billion people have lost control of their credit cards, bank accounts, etc. etc. ad infinitum.  That never happened, couldn't happen, forty years ago.  If you want speed and (supposed) ease - just keep going the way that you are.  If you don't want to be bothered by dozens of  Rube Goldbergesque password equations, and security breaches every other day - go back to paper.  I don't see any way around it.

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