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Minisode: How Safe Are Password Managers?

Minisode: How Safe Are Password Managers?

Update: 2019-06-031
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Password managers are a great solution to remembering 100+ passwords, but are they actually safe? What makes a good password anyway? This week’s question comes from a listener on Twitter.

Here are the new definitive NIST guidelines on passwords.

Bruce Schneier explains this here.

Ok, so just how secure are password managers? Pretty secure, but not perfect.

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Nancy Loomis

I do try to change my passwords regularly esp on critical acct.#passw But I do have lots with my dogs' names. Yes. Guilty as charged. And with so many, I do have to write them down, but I wouldn't keep any of them, even one, in my wallet.

Dec 4th
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Minisode: How Safe Are Password Managers?

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