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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a Geneva-based branch of the UN, warned recently that the ever increasing number of passwords required from computer users today makes it a virtual certainty that users will have no choice but to start repeating passwords. And just one repeated password doubles the chances of it being cracked, and in turn doubles the effectiveness of the cracked password.

As the ITU said in its 2006 internet report, the increasing need for passwords “May cause security breaches, and leave them vulnerable to the machinations of identity thieves ever increasing in number and inventiveness,”

The ITU also warned against the extensive use of cookies by internet marketers, saying that, while some people are not bothered by it, that cookies could very well lead to a breakdown in consumer trust and stall any future expansion of internet commerce.

In a recent blog on passwords, I discuss such a system to generate passwords, one that creates a hierarchy for the importance of the password. This system suggests using a key card to help create passwords, a key card that does not give the passwords away in case it is ever lost or stolen. You might want to give it a read here.

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