I was so mad at the hack that I decided it wouldn’t hurt to research a few. To improve them would require something better than my brainpower. Grudgingly, I realized that my passwords WERE crap against brute force attacks. Then along came the day that one of the WordPress websites I had just taken online got hacked.Ī work buddy pointed out that I should take my own advice and toughen up my passwords to the usual recommended standard: at least eight characters consisting of upper and lowercase letters, numbers, special characters, blah blah. It seemed like an unnecessary extra step to take when my important passwords were stored on a Post-It in my wallet.īefore you cringe too deeply, know that they were really stored in my head, because I have a great memory (or so I thought), and the wallet was just backup in case I got concussion from rugby. I work in technology but resisted password management tools for a long time.
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