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The
TedTalk presentation that I chose was called "What's Wrong with Your
Pa$$word?" by Lorrie Faith Carnor a Security Researcher at Carnegie Mellon
University. Lorrie explains how many people only select passwords that are easy
to remember or have a common rhythm, such as: password or 123123. She and her
colleagues did a few surveys/ data collecting. The first survey they did was
collecting data about people's password; the length, digits or symbols used,
etc. Then they did an online data collecting on Amazon Mechanical Turk, where a
random group of people have to create a password that is at least eight characters,
another group’s passwords should be comprehensive eight, and another for the
basic sixteen characters. They realized that the long and complex passwords are
both very strong but the complex ones are harder to remember. Password meters
are found to be very useful in making sure people's password is good enough, because
when the meter says it’s an “okay” password it doesn’t make you feel satisfied
to you retry until it says “strong.” Lorrie did testing with Pass Phrase
passwords and it seems that people made more error when typing in their password
and random password were too difficult to remember although harder to guess. At
one point during the presentation Lorrie said that the people in the associated
with the computer science department had better passwords then those in the
business department. Which I thought was obvious because they are more knowledgeable
about computer hacking and how easy it is to do something like that. Hackers
may break into your private accounts if you are not careful. These passwords
may then be sold and posted onto a website where everyone may access your
personal data. As Lorrie said at the end of her presentation "when you're
creating your password, try to think about something else."
