Nobody’s gonna remember “pyf85ruGmmgæ&Oy_w48euaT0lt” so they’ll either write it down, save it to their browser,or use a password manager, either of which makes it less secure.
On the other hand, something simple that doesn’t necessarily make sense, say “AlmondsMakeFineGrenades” is difficult for both humans and machines to guess, but easy to remember.
Tl;Dr: an xkcd comic explaining it much better than I just did 😁
Using words in your password can undermine your security aswell, you need to include some other non-English stuff or you can be very vulnerable to dictionary attacks.
Pass PHRASES are much better anyway.
Nobody’s gonna remember “pyf85ruGmmgæ&Oy_w48euaT0lt” so they’ll either write it down, save it to their browser,or use a password manager, either of which makes it less secure.
On the other hand, something simple that doesn’t necessarily make sense, say “AlmondsMakeFineGrenades” is difficult for both humans and machines to guess, but easy to remember.
Tl;Dr: an xkcd comic explaining it much better than I just did 😁
Using words in your password can undermine your security aswell, you need to include some other non-English stuff or you can be very vulnerable to dictionary attacks.
Until you get hit with a dictionary attack.
Luckily this isn’t really viable today as most logins just block you after like 5 attempts.
only sucks when you have 6 passwords and don’t remember which one