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Every day in every way, passwords are getting worse and worse

The only good password is no password at all 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.

Published: 2026-02-23T09:30:09











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