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In the article, the author describes how, in this day and age, a hacker can simply download a free program off the Internet and use that to break into your “secure” accounts with relative ease. The world’s most common password, password, isn’t exactly the most enigmatic combination of alphanumerical characters that can be used to protect your information. The article delves deep into the history and psychology of password usage, including tips on how to make one’s virtual lock a little bit more complicated than just 123456.

Written by William Poundstone, the article is an excerpt from the book Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing & Outwitting Almost Everybody, published by Little, Brown and Company. The nature of the work most definitely makes it a “constructed” work of media. In fact, the author purposefully constructs a controversial title and empathy within the structure of the article in order to actually grab the reader’s attention. “How to Outguess Passwords” isn’t what one would assume to be an article about password protection; it is in fact the complete ...

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