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Feb 23 2026 Every day in every way, passwords are getting worse and worse

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The only good password is no password at all opinion Passwords turn 65 this year. They became a feature of computer users' lives in 1961, with MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). Before then, sysops were real sysops. All jobs went through them, one at a time, and access by others was forbidden by laws written on blocks of stone.... [...]

Posted by Rupert Goodwins on Mon 23 February 2026 in The Register.

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