Dead Men Tell No Passwords

"The man in charge of archiving and maintaining electronic copies of Norway's most important historical documents is dead and so is access to those archives. So the director of the Norwegian cultural center is pleading for hackers to help him crack the center's password-protected database. "

This is something that's often worried me: if I ever got hit by a bus, my insane number of passwords and login names would die with me, bringing down not only all my personal and semi-hobby websites, but probably a couple of high-profile commercial sites as well. Not that it'd take anyone long to figure out what they were I suppose. If they could be bothered, which, in the case of the personal sites (even my beloved NoiZyland), they probably wouldn't. Not that I care, I'd be dead, after all.

(via J-Walk)


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