It’s a little off topic, but this gives me a good platform to ask a question I’ve been wondering for a while. Also, I know lemmy is full of folks who follow the tech and security trends.
Anyway, my question is this: is this thinking when it comes to passwords still at all relevant?:
Kind of. The best advice now is to use a password manager so you dont need to remember passwords at all - in which case just make it random with as many characters as allowed and youre done.
But for remembering passwords, the longer the better and replacing some letters with numbers and random characters is helpful too.
It’s a little off topic, but this gives me a good platform to ask a question I’ve been wondering for a while. Also, I know lemmy is full of folks who follow the tech and security trends.
Anyway, my question is this: is this thinking when it comes to passwords still at all relevant?:
https://xkcd.com/936/
Kind of. The best advice now is to use a password manager so you dont need to remember passwords at all - in which case just make it random with as many characters as allowed and youre done.
But for remembering passwords, the longer the better and replacing some letters with numbers and random characters is helpful too.