A password’s strength is determined by the amount of chances it would take on average to guess it. This is usually measured in terms of entropy. The more entropy, the more guesses it would take to crack a given password, the more secure the password. But it’s not so simple! With modern machine learning practices,
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With the security industry moving towards passkeys, the intrinsic benefits of a strong password have become more apparent to me. There’s a simple beauty to a password in that the only place it’s stored is in your brain. You don’t have to maintain possession of a device, it doesn’t rely on any specialized interfaces, and
The sole reason phishing is still so prevalent today is that anyone can email you. Unsolicited email is a giant security hole that is the root cause of something like 90% of hacks. It’s similar in nature to the single policy that enabled 9/11: pilots were instructed to allow anyone who threatened into the plane’s