Kill or cure
Internet users whinge about passwords but are none too keen on the alternatives. Good news for crooks
PASSWORDS are a pain. People forget them. Hackers pinch them—this year Twitter lost 250,000 and Evernote, an online notebook service had to reset 50m after a breach. Many companies have been found to store passwords without “salting” them (adding extra data to flummox hackers) or even encrypting them at all.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Kill or cure”
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