[Cryptography] Of writing down passwords

[Dave Horsfall]

I've been poking around my ADSL modem, as one does, and amongst its 
instructions (a Technicolor Gateway flogged as a Telstra T-Gate), I found 
the following, well, I dunno...

I quote from The Book of Words, chapter "Protecting Access to the 
Technicolor Gateway", verse "Default password":

  Choose a password that your[sic] can easily remember or write it down.

Or write it down...  Umm, OK, and this is Australia's national carrier?

Come to think of it, perhaps "write it down" was correct after all, in a 
financial sort of way.

-- Dave, who loves XKCD