Well I guess talking to people and telling them you're writing an article about "The Secret Life of Passwords" is more novel than giving them a call pretending to be from their bank or telco.
I dearly hope that those people who actually told passwords to the author were either no longer using them or immediately changed them to something better on reflection of just how terrible they were. My mother kept a door from her parents' first house (which they built after emigrating after WW2) for sentimental reasons, that doesn't mean she relied on the old antique lock to secure her current house.
I dearly hope that those people who actually told passwords to the author were either no longer using them or immediately changed them to something better on reflection of just how terrible they were. My mother kept a door from her parents' first house (which they built after emigrating after WW2) for sentimental reasons, that doesn't mean she relied on the old antique lock to secure her current house.