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Title: Write your passwords down to improve safety Post by: HCK on November 26, 2015, 03:00:16 pm Write your passwords down to improve safety
<article> <section class="page"> <p> For many, many years, you’ve heard the advice: “Never write your passwords down.” This is trumpeted at work, from online services, from financial institutions. Well, it’s wrong. Not in every case, but in many. It encourages people to pick weaker passwords—either in complexity or length—because they have to manage them.</p><p> If you’ve adopted a password-management app like 1Password or LastPass, you shouldn’t need to write anything down, of course: your devices retain and optionally sync passwords and other secure data, and you have to remember a single piece of information—namely, your master password. But what if you forget that? We are all fallible, and sometimes our brains work against us.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3006939/security/write-your-passwords-down-to-improve-safety.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Write your passwords down to improve safety (http://www.macworld.com/article/3006939/security/write-your-passwords-down-to-improve-safety.html#tk.rss_all) |