"In the old days you just had to yell out, `Zog, it's me,' and he would let you into the cave without clubbing you. Now you need all these passwords to get access anywhere."
- Irving Biederman, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, proposing an old-media alternative to modern computer security schemes in a New York Times interview
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