数字时代的“密码疲劳”

数字字母混合，数字字母符号混合，数字字母大小写混合，6位8位14位……一遇到输入密码的场合，就感到厌倦和疲劳，这在心理学上称之为“密码疲劳”。

Password fatigue is the feeling experienced by many people who are required to remember an excessive number of passwords as part of their daily routine, such as to logon to a computer at work, undo a bicycle lock or conduct banking from an automated teller machine (ATM). The concept is also known as password chaos or more broadly as identity chaos.
很多人都经历过“密码疲劳”，记住大量的密码已经成为人们日常生活的一部分，比如上班时的电脑登录密码，解车锁密码，ATM机操作密码等等。这还被称为“密码混乱”或者“ID混乱”。

The increasing prominence of information technology and the Internet in employment, finance, recreation and other aspects of people's lives, and the ensuing introduction of secure transaction technology, has led to people accumulating a proliferation of accounts and passwords.
信息科技和互联网在工作、金融、休闲娱乐和生活其他方面越来越重要，随之引入的安全交易技术使人们积攒了大量的账户和密码。

According to a 2002 survey of British online-security consultant NTA Monitor, the typical intensive computer user has 21 accounts that require a password.
根据英国网络安全咨询公司NTA Monitor2002年的一项调查，经常使用互联网的用户需要记住21个账户和密码。

Some factors causing password fatigue are:
引发“密码疲劳”的因素有：

unexpected demands that a user create a new password
要求创建一个新的密码

unexpected demands that a user create a new password that uses particular pattern of letters, digits, and special characters
要求用户创建新密码时使用特定类型的字母、数字、和特殊符号

demand that the user type the new password twice
创建密码的时候，要求输入两次

frequent and unexpected demands for the user to re-enter their password throughout the day as they surf to different parts of an intranet
用户浏览同一网站的不同区域时，经常要求用户重新输入密码

blind typing, both when responding to a password prompt and when setting a new password.
回应密码提示，以及设定新密码时，看不清自己输入的是什么，需要盲打

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