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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (20 children)

Passwords are outdated in the sense that the current best practice is to use a password manager that automatically generates a unique high entropy password (read: completely garbled mess no human would ever remember) for every website or service you use. Most of the replacement for them, however, are less secure garbage that can easily be obtained either through social engineering or by the authorities, so you know.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (19 children)

Even then, you're better off with a passphrase as they are longer, easier to remember, and are harder to brute force. It's like a dictionary resistant password.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The absolute best practice is to add random spaces that don't correspond to syllables. A 10 character password can go from taking a few seconds to crack to several hundred years with a few well placed spaces.

That said, there are databases out there that don't like spaces, and for some reason lots of financial institutions are this way.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just hate fucking sites that tell me it has to be under 16 characters. Like wtf

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Fucking ridiculous in 2023. If I want to have a 300 character password, that's my business, hate these arbitrary rules of a max number, no special characters...

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