Password

by Martin Paul Eve

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Where does a password end and an identity begin? A person might be more than his chosen ten-character combination, but does a bank know that? Or an email provider? What's an 'identity theft' in the digital age if not the unauthorized use of a password? In untangling the histories, cultural contexts and philosophies of the password,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501314874
• ISBN13: 9781501314872
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 6.4"