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By Steve Safran 

My co-worker Allison can always tell when I’m having a hard time remembering which of my passwords goes with which site. I slowly get more agitated as I type different combinations of the three or four words I typically use. The thing is, I don’t really care if someone knows my password to NYTimes.com or any other news site. And different sites have different rules about how long and sophisticated your password needs to be. People are giving up. One in three workers write down their passwords, nearly defeating the point. “This is really a lot like mom and dad buying a great new security system for the house and junior leaving the combination under the door mat,” David O’Connell, senior analyst at Nucleus Research, told Reuters.

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