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So the solution to remembering 100 passwords starts with a captcha? No thanks, I'd rather deal with the passwords.
Captchas are getting out of control. Three-quarters of them are illegible to anybody who isn't three-quarters in the bag, and the rest use ambiguous characters that could be letters or numbers. Lately I have been having to cycle them four or five times in order to find one that isn't illegible or ambiguous. The ones I really hate are the ones that require punctuation and accented characters. Last week, one actually demanded that I supply a Greek "mu" symbol. Give me a break!
Conversely, with 1Password, I can handle all the passwords I would ever want, with no sweat.
Cutting the Gordian Knot of Web Identity
Perhaps you've seen this recent XKCD about password choice? It prompted a spirited debate ā even on our very own Security Stack Exchange ā about the merits of the argument presented there. Now, to be clear, I'm completely on Randall's side here; I'm all for passphrases over passwords, and I...
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