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Tom Shakespeare on the near impossible task of remembering online passwords.

Tom Shakespeare on the near impossible task of remembering an ever-growing number of online passwords.

"There is little more infuriating", writes Tom Shakespeare, "than some quotidian website which demands you devise a new 11 letter password, including a capital letter, a lowercase letter, a number and a non-alphanumeric character, just to buy a tee shirt."

Tom muses on the near impossible task of remembering an ever-growing number of online passwords. 

Producer: Adele Armstrong

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