> Despite it's [sic] many flaws, the one thing that the humble password has going for it over technically superior alternatives is that everyone understands how to use it. Everyone. I think the problem is that people don't understand how to use passwords. They will reuse them among sites. They pick easily-guessable and low entropy ones. They will type them into any website that asks. The end result is that not much s…
> I think the problem is that people don't understand how to use passwords From the looks of it, neither do the authenticators. The capital letter + symbol + number requirement had led to the current predicament. Just asking for really long passwords would have been a lot better. As it stands, people either use a predictable string of num-symbol to satisfy requirements or remember that one strong password,.which qual…
But a sufficiently long password could literally just be 'a', repeated. Would that really be more secure?
Honestly if you want somebody to have a secure password, make it for them and e-mail it to 'em. Virtually no chance they are going to use it for anything else, and if somebody has their e-mail, they can recreate one anyway.