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How to create strong, secure passwords by learning how to crack them
How to create strong, secure passwords | PCWorldWe'll show you how passwords are cracked and even how to do it yourself, so you can see exactly why a strong password matters.
As our brief foray with a cracking tool will show you, your only protection against a determined password-cracker is—you guessed it—a long, complex string of 10 or more characters. Anything shorter, let alone simpler, is too easy to crack. Know that, and suddenly using a password manager looks a lot easier than trying to create passwords all by yourself.
Read on to learn more about how passwords are hidden from crackers, and how crackers try to tease them out.
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