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The common terms for this are 'password stuffing' or 'credential stuffing'. In the other attack, bad guys use a password of yours, stolen from one website, at many other websites, hoping that you re-used it. Even if a password is not globally unique, it is far better for it be so rarely used that it never appears on any list of the most popular passwords. In one, bad guys try to guess your password using lists of popular passwords and/or lists of previously stolen passwords. Unique passwords defeat two other types of attacks. But, it will not stand up to a brute force attack for very long. The password 'TipTop9!' has upper and lower case letters, a number and a special character, so it looks good when judged by the common yardstick. Wi-Fi passwords are one case where bad guys can make billions of guesses a second for as long as they care to. Long passwords (12 characters is probably a minimum length, the exact number is debatable) defeat brute force guessing attacks. Advice that is solely focused on storage/retrieval is not addressing the entire problem. When creating them, they need to be reasonably long and reasonably unique. We all need hundreds of passwords that need to created, stored and retrieved. And far too much advice comes from people devoted to the one true solution, who ignore other approaches. Some advice sells the fantasy that you can have both ease of use and increased security. The newest section here was prompted by the story of a techie whose passwords were too secure. Other advice comes from techies thinking in the box and is only appropriate for other techies. Some advice is intended to help people pick a single 'good' password when we all need hundreds of passwords. If you stop reading here, just note that anyone who pushes a particular approach without a serious discussion of the downside, is not worth listening to. Every approach to generating, storing and retrieving passwords has its pros/cons.

The best password advice is that which improves your current system/approach, and it will be different for everyone. New sections in February of 2022 and another new section in January 2023. Seeing as how it is 2019 2023, you might think that everything there is to say about passwords has already been said. Still More Problems With Password Managers No Crappy Passwords (software for Windows/Linux)

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