Passwords should be like bad experiences.
The more you remember the worse they were.
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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Disagree, correcthorsebatterystaple is probably more cryptographically secure than any random password you're using now, and it's extremely memorable
Longer is always better, but a fully random password will always be stronger than a "memorable" password of equal length.
You need exactly one memorable password, and that should be the one to your password manager, maybe two if you need to log into your device first. From there everything else should be long and random. Hell, with most of them you don't ever even need to know your own passwords, the tool just handles them itself.
XKCD has it right that you need length over complexity, but it's also from 2011. Today, we very easily can and should get both.
My password manager has no master password so I know literally not one of my passwords
Until you remember that dictionary attacks exist and it's not that complex.
Using passwordmosnster that password is 76 years "to crack" as it is all lower case, English words.
Removing the e from staple increases the time to 98 centuries.
The benefits of changing that l to a capital I or 1 are immense
What? No!
- already
- behind
- you
That's a list of terrible passwords.
NpO0LO$@Sxx^^u259Qx8R1S4
1UGAGmcuLjLM@BXl9W!Zmp
$P$ec7VrC#v1$@b^d8I7qOU9
rSQ8U4FeZ@AA8Ovd#uGJL68J
VxyfjhE7aziS&VJ7*@v&7tsH
ks$38BKxUK*^gsd5dOCMQ8@&
Here have some free passwords.
I just use Hunter2
What do I need any of those for?
All I see is ******* can you try copying and pasting it directly, or even typing it out manually? Maybe use the spoiler tag? Not sure I can help you if its just ******
Hunter.2. .
But remove all the dots. Try that
Nope still just *****.. so it added the periods for some reason but I still cant see the password.
Oh. Ok I have an idea.
It's Hunter3
Ok I'm gonna change it to that tomorrow so it should work now
Hhu6$$#oyBg6ii
and he's a premium password. it'll be 3.50$
I love that the ^ makes the rest of it superscript. Fwiw, using code tags would fix it.
If you’re lucky, you can get away with remembering just one for your password manager. That password hasn’t changed in over 10 years.
password123, we’ll always miss you 🩷
Once I was bored so I downloaded a list of the top 100,000 passwords and counted how many have the name "Vlad" in them. It was 400-something I think. The more you know.
it has never occured to me to put vlad in a password.
On those occasions where just letting Librewolf generate a random-looking one isn't good enough and I need to actually remember a password, I get them by picking some random words from /usr/share/dict/british-english-insane and putting them together with small but memorable changes that would be difficult to guess.
Every time I do it, it feels like the best password I ever came up with.
Those random passwords are really hard to type correctly and even harder to pronounce. If you can pronounce it it, typing it suddenly becomes easier. How about using gibberish words you can pronounce and type. Sort of like goobaFodi3hesto/roli. Can't find any of that in a dictionary, but you can actually type it when needed.
Yeah, now my passwords are just random nonsense.
You compliment me and I generate you secure password. I am like AI but better I am BI.
hunter2 🥰
Passwords should not exist anymore in 2026 in my opinion (passkey, webAuthIn, OICD, SAML2, etc)
Passwords are fine. It's people who should not exist.