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Do average users know that making up long complicated passwords that you can't remember is a waste of time?
Unless you're Bezos, Musk or Gates, no one is trying to hack your personal account or guess your password. They just hack the company and get everyone's account info. Or trick you into divulging it. Then it doesn't matter how complex the password is. And unlike sci-fi and physical locks, a hacker has no way of knowing how close he is to guessing a password (or launch codes) -- the entire code works or it doesn't. Just don't use something obvious or overly simple that someone you know might guess. Changing your password regularly is good protection in case the company gets hacked.
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- L. E. GantLv 72 months agoFavourite answer
True -- most people aren't worth hacking, except for small things like credit card data, and even that's small time and hardly worth the effort.
And, once they are into a company's network, their data and info is easy to get, if they are there.
Better to not have a computer anyways.
- ?Lv 72 months ago
Do you know that making up long complicated passwords protects you from hackers and it is not a waste of time. You write down your passwords in a little black book
- Anonymous2 months ago
"They just hack the company and get everyone's account info. Then it doesn't matter how complex the password is. "
That's not how it works. Passwords are usually stored in hashed form. The "hacker" has to match that hash with known passwords, or generate their own if the passwords are salted (which they should be). A complex and unique password is less likely to be in a standard "rainbow table," and will take a very long time for a hacker to find from scratch through brute force.
