Kevin Young, a computer security expert who studies passwords, is nearly at a loss for words. Literally. Young and his colleagues are working to decode some 2.6 million scrambled LinkedIn passwords, part of a total of 6.1 million released earlier this week on a Russian password cracking forum. Young studies how people pick passwords and how resistant they are to cracking.
How Charles Dickens helped crack your LinkedIn password
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