I recently tried out a decentralized private messaging tool, it didn’t ask for my personal information to register.
Instead, it only asked me to create a username and set a password, after which it provided me with a mnemonic passcode. (I had never used a mnemonic passcode before, but I learned that it’s a web3 or decentralized type of thing.)
On their FAQ page says “The Mnemonic Passcode is your ONLY SOURCE of backup in a scenario where your device breaks down or becomes unusable due to any reason. In such cases, all you need is your Mnemonic Phrase to recover all your account information. It must be copied, screen-shotted, or written down and kept in a safe and secret place until it is needed.”
Does Mnemonic Passcode more secure than usual password? Plus, is there any other ways to keep you mnemonic phrase?
This exact comic was what led me to change my whole password philosophy. Since then, I have hundreds of easy to memorize but insanely long passwords. I love that comic.
I wish I could do that it every place apparently feels the need to invent a new requirement for password composition.
1 symbol, then 2 symbols, then at least 2 numbers, then can’t have some “easy to guess words” in the middle (like wtf?) or require maximum of 12 characters. It’s so frustrating. It’s impossible to have a easy to remember passwords because all of them have to be slightly different depending on the case.
And what pisses me off the most is they don’t tell me when I am. Authenticating “remember this one’s needs 2 symbols and at least 10 characters” or whatever.
Sorry I get really worked up. About this.
And the worst part is the least important the service the more requirements it has.
Yes, tell me about it! The fact that services just do not tell you their requirement sometimes really sucks. I mean, if you cant do easy and you have a vault then you can go generated for those sites and done. I do have some site specific passwords too but mostly they’re easy to remember and insanely long.
And then you use a generator and vault, but there’s some stupid caveat like “you can’t use the ^ character.”
Yeah, but in bitwarden you can define the used things iirc.