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Q&A: Is it safe to use an online password checker?

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Question from Charise:  I read that with all the hacking going on we need to check the strength of our passwords with an online password checker.

I did a Google search for the term “password checker” and a bunch of them came up. The thing is, I’m wondering if it’s safe to use them.

I’m a little leery of typing my passwords into a form on a website that I don’t know anything about.

Are those password checker websites safe to use?  [Read more…]

Why you really need to stop using Passwords (and make the switch to Passkeys)

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As you probably know, people have been using passwords to secure their online accounts for decades. But unfortunately there are four very serious problems with passwords:

1 – Strong passwords that are actually effective at protecting your accounts tend to be very difficult to remember.  [Read more…]

How to print all the passwords Firefox is storing for you

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A while back I wrote this post explaining why it’s a really bad idea to let your browser store the passwords to your online accounts.

That post resulted in quite a few readers asking for help with removing their stored passwords from Google Chrome, which in turn prompted me to write this post with step-by-step instructions.

At the time I didn’t receive any requests for help with removing stored passwords from Firefox so I didn’t think to write anything up about it, but recent developments have prompted me to do it now.  [Read more…]

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