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The true cost of unusable password policies: password use in the wild
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HCI research published 10 years ago pointed out that many users cannot cope with the number and complexity of passwords, and resort to insecure workarounds as a consequence. We present a study which re-examined password policies and password practice in the workplace today.
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- Inglesant, P. G., & Sasse, M. A.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2010-04-10
- Pages
- 383-392
- OpenAlex
- W2150341374
- Cited by
- 326
- References
- 17
- FWCI
- 15.07
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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