Sunday, June 3, 2012

Your parents pick better passwords than you do

Your parents pick better passwords than you do

. Computer users over the age of 55 employ passwords that are twice as secure as passwords used by those under 25 years old. A recent study conducted by Joseph Bonneau, a computer scientist at the University of Cambridge, analyzed almost 70 million passwords belonging to Yahoo users around the world. Ensuring that data was kept anonymous and passwords could not be tied to individual accounts, Bonneau looked at password strength alongside other data such as age and locale.

Boy Genius Report, Your parents pick better passwords than you do

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