Archive for August 5th, 1999

SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A LARGE PASSWORD FILE

August 5, 1999

“In the old days you just had to yell out, ‘Zog, it’s me,’ and he would let you into the cave without clubbing you. Now you need all these passwords to get access anywhere.”

Irving Biederman, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, proposing an old-media alternative to modern computer security schemes, The New York Times, 5 August 1999