Password security

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One of the constant challenges of those of us who create, teach, or enforce passwords and their policies for use is the protection of the password.  I have given talks that try and disuade organizations against making uses change passwords all the time because the tendency is to then write them down.  Here is a classic example of what I see every day.  Now, thanks to AP photographer Jennifer Sinco Kelleher (https://twitter.com/JenHapa?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) everyone else in the world also gets to see it:



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