Some password advice from an infosec professional:
Good password hygiene means choosing a password that is hard to guess.
One that's hard to type. Hard to remember. Hard to think about. Hard to LOOK at.
A password that makes you feel disoriented, uncomfortable.
In short, your password should be a Cthulhu.
The very real difference, for me, between #Mastodon and #Twitter:
I found this joke in my Twitter archive. I posted it in 2020, and as I recall it got a couple retweets and a couple likes. No big deal.
I reposted it last night here, and it already has 147 boosts and 230 likes, plus tons of comments.
#TheAlgorithm did me no favors.
Well I've got most of that but those last parts like uh just figuratively yeah?
@maxleibman this is terrible advice!
It shouldn't be hard to type, it should be impossible to type! A good password has no unicode below 100, no numbers, at least one letterlike symbol, an alchemical symbol, and ofc right angle with downwards zigzag arrow. The combination should summon a demon to your location, and if a character is misplaced the demon shall not be contained within the circle.
@quinn @maxleibman Problem is that most #password prompts I know stuggle with anything beyond #ASCII - with some luck it'll be able to handle #ISO8859-15 with รรร & ร as letters...
Also making #Emoji as passwords isn't really conducive since there is no good, useful and standardized way to enter these on a regular-ass keyboard.
Espechally with modifiers...
I.e. How do you type
"White + Black nonbinary couple with Asian nonbinary Child" on a keyboard?!?
Also no #PasswordManager supports it, and we might just end up with shitty passwords like:
๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ถ ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ โผ๏ธ
@kkarhan @quinn @maxleibman It's 7 years old now, so might need an update but...
@cabebedlam @quinn @maxleibman As much as I like @tomscott's #EmojiKeyboard, this ain't gonna work - period.
If it takes up more space than a 100% 122-key - Keyboard, even people like #Chyrosran22 and myself are checking out...
Most people won't even consider something that requires more than a 65% layout and more than a 3 button combo. [i.e. CTRL+ALT+X]...
Pshaw, I've been using pฬตฬอ อฬฬอฬฬฬฬฬพฬซฬฬฅอออฬฐฬขฬฬปฬชaฬทฬฬอ ออฬออฬฬงฬฐฬนฬฆฬsฬธฬฟฬอฬอฬฬฬอฬอฬ ออฬคฬฎอฬฬฐฬบsฬดออออออฬปอฬฬขwฬตฬออฬอฬ ฬกอoฬธอฬฬฬฬฬฬอฬอฬฬฬฬญออฬบฬกอฬฬฬญฬฒฬขrฬทออฬออฬอฬฬออฬฉออฬฑฬอฬณฬฬฬงฬฬซออฬฌdฬธอออฬอฬอฬออฬฬฟออฬปฬขฬณฬจอฬฬฏอ1ฬทฬอฬฬฬฬออฬฬออฬฬ อฬกฬบฬฬอฬบอ ฬฬคฬขอฬฬฒ my whole life and nobody has ever guessed it...
Lacks any special characters and will be rejected.
Maybe โPh'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagnโ?
@maxleibman @donmelton my password should summon a great old one?
I mean, I guess I could create a Facebook account.
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