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Your password is probably useless.

The best way to improve passwords is to think like the user and stop creating bad password rules, says Jeff Atwood, the creator of Stack Overflow.

Stack Overflow's Jeff Atwood states some truths about horrible password policies that annoy experts, confuse users, and make the world less secure. The Internet is littered with examples, often perpetrated by large corporations, of sites that endanger their users with poor password policies and practices, such as emailing user passwords clear. (Sources ZDnet)

 How to choose your passwords?

 To protect your information, it is necessary to choose and use strong passwords, that is to say, difficult to find using automated tools and difficult to guess by a third party. The strength of a password generally depends primarily on its complexity, but also on various other parameters, explained in detail in the Password Security Recommendations document. If you want a simple rule: choose passwords of at least 12 characters of different types (uppercase, lowercase, numbers, special characters). (Read more)

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