Re: Triple Passwords

On 2010-01-28, Kaz Kylheku <kkylheku@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Users are extremely lazy and they will do whatever it takes to make
it as easy as possible for them to remember their password with the
least amount of effort.

Slight modifications:

*Humans* are extremely *resource-constrained* and they will do
whatever it takes to make it *possible* for them to remember their
password *at all*.

Most of our minds are generally terrible at precisely remembering
sequences of symbols. Even worse when required to remember up to
dozens of different ones, and worse still at forgetting old sequences
and remembering new ones relating to the same thing. Systems that
require this of their users are hogging a very lmited resource.

What you see as "laziness", I see as "coping mechanism".


- Tim
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