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Computer science professor Allen offers advice on security and passwords


Last updated February 2, 2012

By Furman News

In an technological era when everything from daily communication to shopping, networking and banking is done online, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of passwords that are required.  Furman computer science professor Tom Allen was quoted in a Greenville News story about how to create secure passwords, even ones that a hacker couldn’t crack in 400,000 years.

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