This week’s Song About Security is making a foray into…Country and Western, a much-overlooked genre on SaS (you might think). The tune’s called Password, and it was released in 1964 before PCs were even a twinkle in the eye of Bill Gates or IBM… and it’s by Kitty Wells.
However, the password Kitty sings about doesn’t provide access to the cold world of binary information. Rather, it’s the password that opens the door to her heart.
Ms Wells’ hit song, It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels, rendered her the first female country singer to top the US country charts.
According to her Wikipedia entry, Wells inspired a long list of female country singers in the 1960s, and she still ranks as the sixth most successful vocalist in the history of the Billboard country charts. She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991.
However, for all of us at info4security Kitty will always be the guiding influence that helps us remember our password of more than eight characters, using at least one number, capital letter and a symbol. And she’ll never tell us that our password is too weak.
For this, Kitty, we salute you!