Literary notes about passwords (AI summary)
The term "passwords" in literature frequently carries dual significance, serving both literal and symbolic functions. In some narratives, it marks an element of ritual or secret society, a token of membership and mutual recognition—as when characters must learn a set of secret signs and passwords to gain acceptance into an exclusive order ([1],[2],[3]). In contrast, other works adopt a more modern or technical lens, using passwords as concrete representations of security vulnerabilities or digital access, mirroring themes of trust and control in an increasingly networked world ([4],[5],[6]). Moreover, passwords sometimes take on a metaphorical value, symbolizing codes of conduct, hidden knowledge, or even fateful bonds that unite or condemn characters ([7],[8],[9]). This diverse usage underscores the rich potential of the term to bridge realms of the mystical and the modern in literary contexts.
- They had their own ritual and initiation ceremony, founded on the Orange and Masonic precedents, and had their secret signs and passwords.
— from Ireland Since Parnell by D. D. (Daniel Desmond) Sheehan - Well, we have passwords to admit us into the Lodge on Ceremonial night.
— from The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks; Or, The House of the Open Door by Hildegard G. Frey - After having fully learned the signs, grips, and passwords of the order, Calhoun was ready for his journey.
— from Raiding with Morgan by Byron A. (Byron Archibald) Dunn - Their customers were usually more concerned about employees being able to remember passwords easily than worrying about warding off wily hackers.
— from Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier by Suelette Dreyfus - The fewer words in a cracking dictionary, the less time it was likely to take a computer to break the encrypted passwords.
— from Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier by Suelette Dreyfus - Though the program only tried basic default passwords, it had a fair degree of success, since it could attack so many network addresses at once.
— from Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier by Suelette Dreyfus - Vengeance and death are the passwords, the poniard the symbol of action.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various - It transformed the world into the fairyland of the pantomimes of his boyhood, a world full of magic passwords and talismans.
— from The Trail of Conflict by Emilie Baker Loring - Waiting and hoping are still my passwords.
— from The Girl Scouts of the Round Table by Margaret Vandercook