In your post, I read an assumption that a physically secure password tracker implies secure passwords.

One advantage of password managers not captured with a physically secure password tracker is that you can employ more complex (including difficult to type?), changing passwords unique to each system. Some softare password managers do this for you automatically.

Physical security isn't the only attack vector on passwords.

Unfortunately, no one could repeat the study to validate the claims.

I agree, it's really quite graceful. The pirouette reminded me of figure ice skaters.

Link to a youtube video for those interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I just read a book called "The Windup Girl" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... by Paolo Bacigalupi where local environmental police was a major component of the plot.

I enjoyed the book enough to get "Pump Six and Other Stories", a collection of his short stories where I believe he will introduce some of the ideas fleshed out in "The Windup Girl."

I recently started reading A Deepness in the Sky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky ) by Vernon Vinge who briefly touches on this issue.

He speculates that eventually hardware will stabilize allowing code written over the period of centuries to still be used. He says that bugs in old code, (the original designer, coder, maintainer are dead) eventually cause more deaths than hazardous activities like space travel.

I can see how code that hasn't needed TLC for years but is still used extensively (i.e.in chains like awk and grep) could have an impact on computing for years to come.

Vinge also talks about how back doors created by the coders but forgotten over time might be rediscovered and lead to control and manipulation of massive systems that still use those old libraries.

I'd much rather catch my diseases via hypochondria. I understand it is easily cured by placebo.