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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Password  \Pass"word`\,  n. 
  A  word  to  be  given  before  a  person  is  allowed  to  pass;  a 
  watchword;  a  countersign.  --Macaulay. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  password 
  n  :  a  secret  word  or  phrase  known  only  to  a  restricted  group 
  "he  forgot  the  password"  [syn:  {watchword},  {word},  {parole}, 
  {countersign}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  password 
 
  An  arbitrary  string  of  characters  chosen  by  a  user  or  {system 
  administrator}  and  used  to  authenticate  the  user  when  he 
  attempts  to  log  on  in  order  to  prevent  unauthorised  access  to 
  his  account. 
 
  A  favourite  activity  among  unimaginative  {computer  nerd}s  and 
  {cracker}s  is  writing  programs  which  attempt  to  discover 
  passwords  by  using  lists  of  commonly  chosen  passwords  such  as 
  people's  names  (spelled  forwards  or  backwards).  It  is 
  recommended  that  to  defeat  such  methods  passwords  use  a 
  mixture  of  upper  and  lower  case  letters  or  digits  and  avoid 
  proper  names  and  real  words  If  you  have  trouble  remembering 
  random  strings  of  characters,  make  up  an  acronym  like 
  "ihGr8trmP"  ("I  have  great  trouble  remembering  my  password"). 
 
  (1994-10-27) 
 
 




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