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Ding ding ding. I am moving to 100+ char passwords for sites that support it. There is absolutely no reason to ever have a maximum character limit for passwords, and it drives me insane that some sites still use asinine limits like 12 (!) character maximums.
I started with 20, then 40, and now 60 moving to 100+ or whatever the max is for websites. I have been hacked long ago and I’ve been the target of discrimination and personal attacks of many types before, so I’ve ratcheted up my security hard in the last decade.
Never is a strong term; currently, in most cases. But another 5, 10, 20 years it might be completely different. If I can set up passwords that I don’t need to change until I’m dead*, vs scrambling because a new tactic has been found to crack passwords 50x as fast… why not go with the ‘once and done’ approach? Especially when it’s a slider inside a generator that takes a couple seconds to adjust.
*assuming no breaches or other situations yada yada some conditions may apply visit longasspasswords.netgovxyz for details
