> Every day in every way, passwords are getting worse and worse
[AUTHOR: Rupert Goodwins]
[DATE: 23/02/2026 09:30]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
The only good password is no password at all Passwords turn 65 this year. They became a feature of computer users' lives in 1961, with MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). Before then, sysops were real sysops. All jobs went through them, one at a time, and access by others was forbidden by laws written on blocks of stone.…