Effectively, we've been trained – by people who should know better – to use passwords which are increasingly difficult to remember, but also increasingly easy for a machine to guess.
Something light-hearted for a Friday? Just because it's a cartoon, doesn't make that the case, sorry. But there's an interesting message in here, which a lot of people who know about information security get quite worked up about. Effectively, we've been trained – by people who should know better – to use passwords which are increasingly difficult to remember, but also increasingly easy for a machine to guess. Yes, it's an unashamedly geeky cartoon, but nobody said it would be easy. Click to enlarge.
Enjoyed that? Read another article by Chris, selected at random...
Friday?
(Thanks Chris for introducing xkcd.com into my life – the humour is right up my street, even the content warning made me smile)
Memo to self: don't write articles in advance for specific days and then later shuffle them around.