The ‘Donut’ GCHQ’s Cheltenham HQ (Picture: Reuters)
The UK’s spy agency GCHQ have urged people to stop using difficult-to-guess passwords.
Yep, the SPY AGENCY has released a document in which they claim having simpler passwords can actually protect consumers.
They even suggest IT workers dumb things down a little bit and offer users ‘a scheme that produces passwords that are easier to remember’.
In Password Guidance: Simplifying your Approach, GCHQ claims a recent survey ‘reported that UK citizens each had an average of 22 online passwords’.
It suggests that organisations stop forcing people to change their password so often, unless there’s a suspected security breach.
It also predicts the ‘death of the password’ in the near future, and that ‘alternative authentication methods’ will need to be used.
The document goes on to give a series of tips, such as: ‘Understand the limitations of user generated passwords.’
Now, let’s not jump to conclusions, maybe the our spy agency is genuinely worried about us forgetting the password to our Twitter account?
The UK’s spy agency GCHQ have urged people to stop using difficult-to-guess passwords.
Yep, the SPY AGENCY has released a document in which they claim having simpler passwords can actually protect consumers.
They even suggest IT workers dumb things down a little bit and offer users ‘a scheme that produces passwords that are easier to remember’.
In Password Guidance: Simplifying your Approach, GCHQ claims a recent survey ‘reported that UK citizens each had an average of 22 online passwords’.
It suggests that organisations stop forcing people to change their password so often, unless there’s a suspected security breach.
It also predicts the ‘death of the password’ in the near future, and that ‘alternative authentication methods’ will need to be used.
The document goes on to give a series of tips, such as: ‘Understand the limitations of user generated passwords.’
Now, let’s not jump to conclusions, maybe the our spy agency is genuinely worried about us forgetting the password to our Twitter account?
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