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by bradleyjg 3293 days ago
In order of importance:

1) Don't use a really bad password like 'password'.

This one is the most important because it might allow an attacker to compromise your accounts online--that is without compromising the site itself.

2) Use a different password for each site.

This one is important because you don't want a compromise of smallvillelittleleague.org, which stores its passwords in plaintext, to mean that an attacker now has access to your banking accounts.

3) Use 2-factor on high importance / risk websites.

4) Use very strong passwords everywhere (i.e. long randomly generated).

If you've done 1-3 above the scenario where having a very strong password over a medium strength password is of concrete benefit is fairly narrow. It requires that the attacker get a website's password hashes, that the hash used be a fairly weak one, but that the website not be totally owned (because if it was then there's no additional benefit to having your site specific password).

All IMO of course.

1 comments

> 4) Use very strong passwords everywhere (i.e. long randomly generated).

You can also go the route of using passwords like:

   MyEmailIsFromGmail!
   or
   HackerNews?MoreLikeSlackerNews
Note that HackerNews?MoreLikeSlackerNews has much less entropy than j-9yh`qw#j54-JIR$
Sure, but having to type that in will cause an aneurysm.
That's why password managers exist