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What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?

Lorrie Faith Cranor · TED

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About

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 ...

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxCMU
Speaker
Lorrie Faith Cranor
Year
2014
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Business and management, Society and politics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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