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A nonprofit news agency promoting social justice. Seeking answers to the question:
How do we make democracy work for the poor?
Lorrie Faith Cranor studies online privacy, usable security, phishing, spam and other research around keeping people safe online. In this TED Talk she reports on a study of passwords that people routinely use.
Cranor studied thousands of real passwords to figure out the surprising, very common mistakes that users - and secured sites - make to compromise security. And how, you may ask, did she study thousands of real passwords without compromising the security of any users? That's a story...
