1. Introduction 2. “Who goes there?”: Military, Mortality and Passwords 3. Special Characters: Passwords in Literature and Film 4. P455w0rd5 and the Digital Era 5. Identity List of Illustrations Notes Index
The ubiquitous password is the usually accepted standard for identity in the digital era—this book traces its history, development, and potential futures.
Martin Paul Eve is Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
An erudite and interesting amble through the history, philosophy,
and psychology of passwords.
*Bruce Schneier, Security Technologist and New York
Times-Bestselling Author of Data and Goliath The Hidden Battles to
Collect Your Data and Control Your World*
Conjuring our passwords has become a daily act of our
computer-saturated existence. By no means sequestered to our
digital present, Martin Paul Eve's excellent account of the
password covers its long and lively history. Weaving literary
references with lucid technical explanations, Eve skillfully traces
the evolution of password to probe its fundamental connections to
issues of human identity, trust, and ownership.
*Gabriella Coleman, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological
Literacy, McGill University, Canada*
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