Wishful thinking

Wouldn’t it be time for a password for everything?

A separate password for each account - and it can't be a simple one either, it has to consist of an overly complicated character.

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The cabaret artist, author and expert on human nature Stefan Vögel answers questions that others don't even dare to ask. This time it's about an annoying topic. The endless number of passwords that people simply need these days. 

Do you find the complex passwords that internet companies now demand of us as annoying as I do? I know these people care about my security (but even more about their security image), but sometimes I'd just like to have my first name or date of birth or zip code back as the universal password for all my internet accounts. But they won't let me. Or not anymore. Instead, they want uppercase and lowercase letters, demand additional special characters and numbers, and all with a minimum length of nine characters, so that a normal person can no longer remember a password.