As you all know too well, I am very interested in password technology. Certainly, passwords aren’t, by themselves, the answer to security but they can help if people pick them sensibly and Web sites handle them is a secure manner.
Brent Jensen, over at Stormpath has an informative article on the 5 Myths of Password Security. It’s written with the password user—rather than the Website—in mind. It offers some reasonable suggestions for picking passwords and disabuses users of beliefs in some silly notions like big Websites can be trusted to store your password safely.
Most Irreal readers are probably familiar with this material but it’s worth taking a look just to see if there’s some little nugget you didn’t know. Be careful of the comments, though. There’s some misinformation there.