How long should a password be in 2023? You’re asking the wrong question

Image credit: Valeriia Mitriakova / Getty Images. Article by Ed Bott. ZDNET – October 25, 2023.

A longer password is more secure. It’s just common sense, right? Increasing the length of a password means there are more combinations available. That in turn means a brute force attack, in which someone uses an automated system to try every combination in an effort to crack the code, will take longer. […]

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