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RE: How To Create Easy and Secure Passwords

in #technology7 years ago

Great post, Since most webservices still store your password on their server. It is wise to change passwords every 3 months and never ever use the same password or phrase twice. You mentioned that. Other risk of fake websites you mentioned. Harder is to prevent a men in the middle attack in a cafe. Some black hats could spend a couple days in a bizzy cafe or above it for example stealing credentials with an ARP-spoofing attack which they sell in a big list of the darkweb after a few targets in a month time. I did a post on passwords a while back with the pwgen method. Good to see people keeping up the awareness.

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Harder is to prevent a men in the middle attack in a cafe.

Yes! That is one reason I rarely use WiFi in public places but even if I don't use one I will still make new passwords ever so often. For the average person, using something like LastPass is very helpful in preventing fishing attacks but that still can't stop MITM.

Thanks for the insightful comment.