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b'Passwords are a common attack vector for fraudsters and making them stronger \\u2013 mandating alphanumeric characters and capitalizations \\u2013 is a common requirement. Joseph Bonneau, now an engineer at Google, has spent a lot of time studying passwords, and a paper he wrote after analyzing 70 million passwords took top prize in the National Security Agency\\u2019s first Science of Security Competition. Regarding ID\'s Gina Jordan spoke with Bonneau about his paper and the future of passwords. He thinks passwords aren\\u2019t going anywhere anytime soon but still and are a flawed security system. "Passwords cannot be redeemed as long as humans are picking them," he explains.'