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Paperback. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 120. .
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, Martin Paul Eve explores how `what we know' became `who we are', revealing how the modern notion of identity has been shaped by the ... Read more
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, Martin Paul Eve explores how `what we know' became `who we are', revealing how the modern notion of identity has been shaped by the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Object Lessons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781501314872
SKU
V9781501314872
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About Martin Paul Eve
Martin Paul Eve is Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Reviews for Password
An erudite and interesting amble through the history, philosophy, and psychology of passwords.
Bruce Schneier, Security Technologist and New York Times-Bestselling Author of Data and Goliath The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Conjuring our passwords has become a daily act of our computer-saturated existence. By no means sequestered to our digital present, Martin ... Read more
Bruce Schneier, Security Technologist and New York Times-Bestselling Author of Data and Goliath The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Conjuring our passwords has become a daily act of our computer-saturated existence. By no means sequestered to our digital present, Martin ... Read more