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Password Formulas Don’t Fool Hackers
Category: Health
Duration: 00:02:24
Publish Date: 2018-05-23 10:20:07
Description: Every time we write about passwords on Lifehacker, a few readers share their secret formula for creating passwords. According to Ryan Merchant, senior manager at the password manager Dashlane, those formulas are easy to hack. Dashlane recently analyzed 61 million passwords from years of large data breaches—passwords that are available to many security researchers, hackers, and even the public. Dashlane’s biggest takeaway is that people aren’t very original.
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