Your password has expired again! Time to come up with a new one.
Be sure to use at least one capital letter, lower-case letter, a symbol, and a number.
And don’t use anything that can be easily guessed, like the name of your street, child, or pet. Random strings of letters, symbols, and numbers are the most secure.
To keep your account safe and secure, don’t write it down anywhere where someone else can find it! The safest place to keep you password is in your head.
After a few error messages, you finally cobble together the perfect frankenstein monster of a password. Random numbers, letters, symbols; it’s got everything. No one will ever be able to guess it…
Including you, when you try to remember it to log in the next day.
The whole password system seems fundamentally flawed. We’re taught to create passwords complicated enough to be unguessable and unhackable, and consequently impossible to remember. And to foil hackers, you’re supposed to use a different password for every single login, which can easily number into the hundreds.
It’s no wonder the vast majority of people use insecure passwords, or repeat the same password for multiple sites. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be able to access their accounts at all. When you look at it this way, it’s the system that’s at fault as much as the people who ignore password standards.
Passwords have been in use since the 1960s, and the system hasn’t changed much since then. You’d think that with how technology has advanced so much since then, we’d have come up with a better computer security system than this.
While the system hasn’t changed much in the past 50 years, a security revolution could be just around the corner. In the next 10 or 20 years, you could be logging into your bank account with your fingerprint, or accessing your email with a retinal scan.
Can’t imagine a world without passwords? Check out the graphic below to discover what new security systems are in the works, and when they’ll be rolling out to a computer near you.
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