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fromFast Company
1 week ago

What if everything you think you know about passwords is wrong? Here's what really makes a strong password in 2026

Use long (15+ character) memorable passphrases rather than frequent complexity rules or periodic resets; length significantly increases resistance to modern brute-force attacks.
fromThe Hacker News
3 months ago

Why You Should Swap Passwords for Passphrases

When attackers steal password hashes from a breach, they brute-force by hashing millions of guesses per second until something matches. The time this takes depends on one thing: how many possible combinations exist. A traditional 8-character "complex" password (P@ssw0rd!) offers roughly 218 trillion combinations. Sounds impressive until you realize modern GPU setups can test those combinations in months, not years. Increase that to 16 characters using only lowercase letters, and you're looking at 26^16 combinations, billions of times harder to crack.
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