The Matrix: August 21, Password Security

We use passwords for everything these days. Our email accounts, our bank accounts, our social media accounts. While you may believe you have come up with the most bulletproof, cryptic combination of your dog’s name, your kid’s birthday, and a couple wildly unpredictable punctuation marks (who’d ever think to put that zany @mpers&nd there?)—the fact is, hackers often spend less time trying to guess your password than they do simply asking someone to send it to them. Someone like your bank, for instance…

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