雙語 | 你有“密碼疲勞”嗎？

Password fatigue is the feeling experienced by manypeople who are required to remember an excessive number of passwords as part oftheir daily routine, such as to logon to a computer at work, undo a bicyclelock or conduct banking from an automated teller machine (ATM). The concept isalso known as password chaos or more broadly as identity chaos.

很多人都經歷過“密碼疲勞”，記住大量的密碼已經成為人們日常生活的一部分，比如上班時的電腦登錄密碼，解車鎖密碼，ATM機操作密碼等等。這還被稱為“密碼混亂”或者“ID混亂”。

The increasing prominence of information technologyand the Internet in employment, finance, recreation and other aspects ofpeople's lives, and the ensuing introduction of secure transaction technology,has led to people accumulating a proliferation of accounts and passwords.

信息科技和互聯(lián)網在工作、金融、休閑娛樂和生活其他方面越來越重要，隨之引入的安全交易技術使人們積攢了大量的賬戶和密碼。

According to a 2002 survey of Britishonline-security consultant NTA Monitor, the typical intensive computer user has21 accounts that require a password.

根據(jù)英國網絡安全咨詢公司NTA Monitor在2002年的一項調查，經常使用互聯(lián)網的用戶需要記住21個賬戶和密碼。

unexpected demands that a user create a newpassword

要求創(chuàng)建一個新的密碼

unexpected demands that a user create a newpassword that uses particular pattern of letters, digits, and specialcharacters

要求用戶創(chuàng)建新密碼時使用特定類型的字母、數(shù)字、和特殊符號

demand that the user type the new password twice

創(chuàng)建密碼的時候，要求輸入兩次

frequent and unexpected demands for the user tore-enter their password throughout the day as they surf to different parts ofan intranet

用戶瀏覽同一網站的不同區(qū)域時，經常要求用戶重新輸入密碼

blind typing, both when responding to a passwordprompt and when setting a new password.

回應密碼提示，以及設定新密碼時，看不清自己輸入的是什么，需要盲打。