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> Every day in every way, passwords are getting worse and worse

[SOURCE] The Register Security [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.…
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