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October 06, 2024

Simple words harder to crack

- SIAN HEWITT

END OF SILLY P@S5wORDS!

TECH boffins say we should stop trying to remember baffling passwords.

For years, we've been told they should be a jumble of upper and lower case letters, numbers and even symbols.

Complexity was thought to make them harder to guess or for hackers to crack them.

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