🆕 blog! “Password Resets in an Age of MFA”

Recently, WordPress got in contact with me to say they suspect that my password was exposed in some sort of data breach. Well, it's a day ending with a "y" - so of course some scumbag has pilfered my digital identity. WordPress mandated that I change my password. But was that really necessary? Firstly, the […]

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@Edent posting past, expired, passwords can be harmful. If the generator has/had a poor implementation then it may be leak enough info to crack your current password. For instance, recently a bitcoin wallet was cracked when they reverse engineered a poor time based randomizer.

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