A Point of View - The Online Password

The Online Password

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"There is little more infuriating", writes Tom Shakespeare, "than some quotidian website which demands you devise a new 11 letter password, including a capital letter, a lowercase letter, a number and a non-alphanumeric character, just to buy a tee shirt."

Tom muses on the near impossible task of remembering an ever-growing number of online passwords.

Producer: Adele Armstrong

Published on Sunday, 6th January 2019.

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