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trochee ([personal profile] trochee) wrote2004-05-29 05:49 pm

Best reason yet for password security

Apparently, Minuteman missile launch codes in 1983 used to be eight consecutive zeroes, because higher-ups thought that having a more complex passcode would slow us down too much on our rush to obliterate Eurasia.

I remember thinking around that same time that I probably wouldn't live to be thirty.