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posted by martyb on Friday December 13 2019, @03:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the https://xkcd.com/936/ dept.

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"?


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  • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Friday December 13 2019, @05:27PM (2 children)

    by Osamabobama (5842) on Friday December 13 2019, @05:27PM (#931763)

    So what password do you use, then?

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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday December 13 2019, @05:37PM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday December 13 2019, @05:37PM (#931767) Journal
    Whatever one I want, same as everyone else who doesn't have a password nazi telling them what to do because they read a bs article about "industry best practices " backed by zero empirical evidence . :-)
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @06:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @06:41PM (#931796)

    dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=12|base64