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49% of workers, when forced to update their password, reuse the same one with just a minor change:
A survey of 200 people conducted by security outfit HYPR has some alarming findings.
For instance, not only did 72% of users admit that they reused the same passwords in their personal life, but also 49% admitted that when forced to update their passwords in the workplace they reused the same one with a minor change.
Furthermore, many users were clearly relying upon their puny human memory to remember passwords (42% in the office, 35% in their personal lives) rather than something more reliable. This, no doubt, feeds users' tendency to choose weak, easy-to-crack passwords as well as reusing old passwords or making minor changes to existing ones.
What is so bad about changing "Password1" to "Password2"?
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Friday December 13 2019, @03:47PM (3 children)
Yeah, sometimes I think this stuff is overdone. If someone has physical access to a computer, they can rip out a hard disk pretty quickly. And you could argue in favor of disk encryption, but if the motherboard dies (which is rare) you lose everything. But hopefully it's all backed up, right?
I tend to keep passwords simple for low-privilege accounts, and fairly longish for admin/root stuff.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @04:03PM
If you're counting on being able to get data off the disk when the computer fails, you've screwed up on so many levels.
You're supposed to have regular backups and if what you're doing is so hard to replicate that losing a few hours of work is a problem, then you should be running those backups more frequently. I'm sure there are a few areas where you can generate data too quickly for that, but in those cases, you have other considerations and you'll likely want to use something more advanced for data storage than a single computer.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday December 13 2019, @04:49PM (1 child)
I wish. Hard disk physically soldered in place, dirty rotten built-in obsolescence bastards.
Want more storage? Buy a new machine because it's not worth unsoldering the old one and still having older hardware.
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday December 14 2019, @12:01AM
Or plug in a USB stick or external drive.