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Autore: Eve Martin Paul <1986-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Password / / Martin Paul Eve Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2020
London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (126 pages) : illustrations, graphs
Disciplina: 005.8
Soggetto topico: Identification
Passing (Identity)
Authentication
Security systems
Computers - Access control - Passwords
Literary theory
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: Passwords and their limits; Chapter 1 Who Goes There? : Militaries, Mortality and Passwords; Passwords, militaries and classical civilizations; Enigma: Complexity, calculation, making and breaking; Disclosure, militaries and the law; Chapter 2 Special Characters: Passwords in Literature and Religion; Passwords, myth and magic; Harry Potter and the two-factor authentication device; The Word; Chapter 3 P455w0rd5 and the Digital Era; Cryptographic hash functions; Fearful asymmetry; Biometrics; Chapter 4 Identity.
Sommario/riassunto: "Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 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. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic."--
Titolo autorizzato: Password  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5013-1488-2
1-5013-1489-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910597144003321
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Serie: Object lessons.