Complicated passwords and enforced changes don't help to secure online accounts as well as you may think.
Having to remember a complicated string of characters is a problem acknowledged by associations such as Fido Alliance, which aims to help reduce the world's reliance on passwords.
Having trouble remembering your password after a long holiday? That's just the tip of the iceberg of password-related problems, experts say. "This usability challenge makes people revert to the easiest password to remember and reuse, which then exacerbates password risks," he added. Noting that websites today have "different, relatively sophisticated" requirements, she said: "It's harder and harder to come up with a meaningful password that will be easy to recall."Even for people with the strongest passwords and photographic memories, security concerns remain.
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