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CHAPTER 3: Finding Trust in Online Accounts
SMART PASSWORD MANAGEMENT
With the average per- son online trying to keep track of more than 200 accounts requiring passwords, the need to be smart and safe with them has never been greater. Once you settle on an ap- proach to building pass- words, you need to think about how to manage them:
1. Use a different password
for each account.
An absolutely crucial measure, creating unique passwords prevents hackers
in possession of information for one account from raiding other accounts
as well. If someone logs into Netflix with your username and password, that’s bad. But if you used that same password with, say, your Wells Fargo account, things could get much worse.
2. Check to see if your existing passwords have already been exposed.
Go to https://haveibeenpwned.com/, click on the “Passwords” tab, and enter your passwords to see if they have shown up in any data breaches. If they have, change them right away.
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