Timeline for What is your way to create good passwords that can actually be remembered?
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| Aug 12, 2011 at 13:08 | comment | added | Rory Alsop♦ | correct horse battery staple! | |
| Aug 11, 2011 at 20:31 | comment | added | StasM | @Paulo That provided there are really sites that have humans ponder over each password entered there (out of hundreds of people signing up every day, probably) and guess the algorithm which is being used (and these humans are smart enough to guess it by just one instance). I think it's moderately safe to bet that chances of this happening are low. And if the site proves malicious the harm of giving them my email is probably worse - I get tons of trash from some sites that I signed up, found they are worthless and too lazy to find out how to delete my account. | |
| Aug 11, 2011 at 11:56 | comment | added | Paŭlo Ebermann | If one of those sites is malicious, they can see your generated password, and can guess your algorithm easily, allowing them to login for you in every other such "medium-security site". | |
| Jan 1, 2011 at 0:46 | history | answered | StasM | CC BY-SA 2.5 |