The longer your passwords are the harder they will be to crack. How long should they be and what sort of characters should you use? Steve Gibson on episode 256 of Security Now suggest ten characters. Both upper and lower case with numbers. This gives you 7.6×10 to the 17th power possible character combinations. You could also use twelve characters numbers and lower case alphabet (easier to type) to get a similar amount of randomness. Use Lastpass to generate and manage the passwords securely.
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