Maybe You Should Write Your Password Down, After All

Posted on June 7, 2002

If you know any Norwegian-speaking hackers, give them a call and let them know that we’ve got a job for them. The man who maintained the archives at Norway’s National Center of Language and Culture recently died — having never divulged the password to the computer system that houses the archive. Not to anybody. So now the Center finds itself in the position of having to hack into their own system or lose forever research on thousands of culturally important documents!

Read all about it: Dead Men Tell No Passwords (from Wired News)