Best of 2009

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2009. 91 posts.

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Write Down Your Password

Microsoft’s Jesper Johansson urged people to write down their passwords. This is good advice, and I’ve been saying it for years. Simply, people can no longer remember passwords good enough to reliably defend against dictionary attacks, and are much more secure if they choose a password too complicated to remember and…