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My uncle handed me a sticky note in 2011 with one password rule and I finally get it now
He was setting up my first email account at his kitchen table in Toledo and wrote "long beats weird" on a Post-it, saying a 20 character sentence beats "P@ssw0rd1" every time. I ignored him for a decade until my work account got locked after a phishing email in March. Anyone else have an old school trick that turned out to be right?
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riverh491mo ago
Long beats weird" sounds nice until you remember that most people reuse the same three passwords everywhere. A 20 character sentence is great until it's "iloveyoutoomuch123" and it shows up in a data breach from some random shopping site you forgot you signed up for. The lockout in March wasn't the password's fault, it was the phishing email. A long password doesn't stop you from clicking a bad link. So the Post-it trick is solid advice, sure, but it's not some magic fix people make it out to be.
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