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The password is easy to crack – Are you sure?


Quite a few security professionals say ‘Yes’ very loudly. 

We would say that a ‘hard-to-crack’ password is hard to crack and an ‘easy-to-crack’ password is easy to crack, just as strong lions are strong and weak lions are weak; look at the cubs, inured and aged. 

However hard or easy to manage, the password is absolutely indispensable, without which digital identity would be just a disaster.  We need to contemplate on how to make the password harder to crack while making it harder to forget.

Hard-to-forget passwords will help for teleworking in stressful situations like pandemic. We were unfortunately late for Covid-19. We or our successors will hopefully be ready for the next outbreak.

This subject and related issues are discussed on Payments Journal, InfoSec Buzz and Risk Group

https://www.paymentsjournal.com/easy-to-remember-is-one-thing-hard-to-forget-is-another/


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