grant.olivia•24d agoProlific Poster

Hot take: I was reading an old forum archive from 2006 and saw a post where someone said they'd never use a password longer than 8 characters because it was 'overkill'.

I found it on a digital preservation site, and it just hit me how much the baseline advice has shifted from 'maybe use a capital letter' to today's passphrases and mandatory 2FA.

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emma_garcia24d ago

My buddy's 2006 email got hacked last year, weak password.

finley_shah6424d ago

Yeah @emma_garcia, a password manager saved me.

karenbailey24d ago

Which one do you use? I've been meaning to set one up but they all look the same to me.