grant.olivia•1mo agoProlific Poster

Hot take: I was reading an old forum archive from 2006 and saw a post where someone said they'd never use a password longer than 8 characters because it was 'overkill'.

I found it on a digital preservation site, and it just hit me how much the baseline advice has shifted from 'maybe use a capital letter' to today's passphrases and mandatory 2FA.

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emma_garcia1mo ago

My buddy's 2006 email got hacked last year, weak password.

finley_shah641mo ago

Yeah @emma_garcia, a password manager saved me.

karenbailey1mo ago

Which one do you use? I've been meaning to set one up but they all look the same to me.

nancy_wood12d ago

And now we're all basically walking around with 30 character passwords for our toaster apps. 8 characters not enough? Try remembering 8 different ones. My password manager knows more about me than my mom does.