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		ZainRiz on Dec 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse ... Frankly, the most surprising thing about this article is that only 49% of people do this. Do the other 51% sincerely try to change their passwords? Or maybe they were too scared to report the truth :P

clort on Dec 14, 2019 [–]

I would guess a lot of them cycle through a short list of easy-to-remember passwords instead.

It might be interesting to see how many actually try to sincerely pick that new, secure, password.

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