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PASSWORDS ARE OLDER THAN YOU THINK. Far from arriving with the first computers, they were first used in ancient times to prove a visitor’s identity and—assuming the password provided was correct—grant them access to a place or sensitive information.

While passwords may be digital these days, not much else has changed. It’s still true that the easiest passwords to remember are the easiest ones to guess or crack, and that if your password should be leaked, it becomes instantly useless.

Unfortunately, many of us opt for the path of least resistance. Rather than thinking of

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