So we need the computer's help to remember and generate all those passwords and we need one strong master password to protect them all. The only protection you have is frequent password changes and avoiding password reuse, so that a compromised account doesn't turn into a compromised identity.Īs you know, humans are notoriously bad at choosing and remembering lots of changing passwords, frequently used ones can be found here. The infamously long list can be found here.
Recent disclosures have shown that even big companies like Yahoo, Apple, and LinkedIn have suffered from data breaches and have had their password data stolen.
However, you have no way of knowing how these sites secure their passwords, maybe they are stored in clear, or hashed without salt which makes them easy to crack with rainbow tables, or debugging messages expose passwords in server logs. If you're like me, you've been on the Internet for over 20 years, and in all these years you kept making a capital sin: reusing the same passwords on different sites for convenience, as illustrated in the cartoon here.
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