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Although your advice about "not writing your password here" is well-intentioned, the reality is that most passwords are already available in private blackhat da
by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Although your advice about "not writing your password here" is well-intentioned, the reality is that most passwords are already available in private blackhat databases.
Memorizing and reusing a single password is the worst thing you can do. The number of leaks and brute-force attacks are increasing, and you should really be generating random and unique passwords per website if you aren't.
To get an idea of how easy it is to crack a leaked password, download a public list of a website you know[1] (ex. L1nk3d1n), you'll probably find the password you used at the time of their leak in the list, since ~97% of them have already been cracked.
[1] https://hashes.org/public.php https://hashes.org/public.php
- grzm 10y agoThis has nothing to do with the submission, and only has the most tenuous connection to the parent comment.