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How the OPM Hackers Killed the Password
Nextgov: White House directives dating back to 2004 warned against relying on passwords as the only mechanism to lock government systems -- but that didn’t stop agencies. U.S. cyber czar Michael Daniel publicly exhorted citizens to “kill the password” multiple times in 2014, but that didn’t stop password proliferation. Nor did a hack of passcode-protected personal devices that exposed nude photos of starlets like Jennifer Lawrence seem to faze federal computer users.
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