TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eve,Martin Paul
TI  - Password
T2  - Object lessons
SN  - 9781501314872
AV  - HM1068 .E93 2016
U1  - 005.8 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Academic, An Imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.
KW  - Identification
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Passing (Identity)
KW  - Authentication
KW  - Security systems
KW  - Computers
KW  - Access control
KW  - Passwords
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-117) and index; Introduction: Passwords and their limits -- "Who goes there?" : militaries, mortality, and passwords -- Special characters : passwords in literature and religion -- P455w0rd5 and the digital era -- Identity
N2  - "Where does a password end and an identity begin? A person might be more than his chosen ten-character combination, but does a bank know that? Or an email provider? What's an 'identity theft' in the digital age if not the unauthorized use of a password? In untangling the histories, cultural contexts and philosophies of the password, Martin Paul Eve explores how 'what we know' became 'who we are', revealing how the modern notion of identity has been shaped by the password. Ranging from ancient Rome and the 'watchwords' of military encampments, through the three-factor authentication systems of Harry Potter and up to the biometric scanner in the iPhone, Password makes a timely and important contribution to our understanding of the words, phrases and special characters that determine our belonging and, often, our being."--Publisher's description
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