Password poser

21 May 1999

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We are beginning to receive regular, and may we say worrying, examples of the passwords supplied with AOL free disks.

In case you are one of the three people in the UK who doesn't receive at least two AOL freebies a week - in which case we assume that you aren't getting your fair share of Readers Digest prize draw letters either - the AOL password is two words linked by a hyphen.

Chris Lawrence in Liverpool last week received the ominous 'Beware-staff' on a disk in a magazine. 'I'm sure I was followed all the way home from WH Smiths, too,' he says.

We know some of you collect your favourites, so let us know what they are.

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