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Man Behind the First Computer Password: It's Become a Nightmare


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Fernando Corbato, MIT

Fernando Corbato is interviewed in 1963 at the MIT Computation Center where he was a professor of computer science.

Credit: YouTube via Computer History Museum

In the early 1960s, Fernando Corbató helped deploy the first known computer password.

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