Digital Privacy

Securing Your Accounts

Creating Strong Passwords
From EFF, covers password managers, the dice method, and two-factor authentication
Strong passwords with the Dice Method
Roll dice to randomly, choose words from a wordlist, string six words together. This passphrase will be easy to remember and hard to guess.
Two-Step Authentication
"Enabling two-factor authentication—or 2FA for short—is among the easiest, most powerful steps you can take to protect your online accounts."
Though many users receive log-in codes via SMS text messaging, it is important to understand that "SMS itself offers little protection in transit, and the text containing your log-in code can be intercepted by your telecom and others"
Password Recovery Questions
Don’t use password recovery questions that can be mined from social media or other sources.

Password Safes

Password safes are tools that can encrypt and store your passwords using a single master password making it practical to use many different passwords on different sites and services without having to memorize them. You need to remember just one difficult-to-guess but easy-to-remember password, the one that opens your password safe. Other complex, secure passwords are created, saved, and retrieved by the password manager.

General Password Safe Information

Passwords: Steps You Can Take

Unique account, unique password
Keep passwords private
Change your passwords seasonally or yearly on important accounts
Develop difficult-to-guess but easy-to-remember passwords that incorporate memory devices
Use a password safe

Last Updated: Aug 29, 2022 1:07 PM
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Digital Privacy

Securing Your Accounts

Password Safes

Passwords: Steps You Can Take

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