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Originally Posted by DarkArts
Well, shucks! I just updated a couple of hundred old bookmarks from HTTP to HTTPS and 95% of the sites accept a secure connection now. It's just goes to show, you can't be complacent online - it's always changing.
So, tip of the week: check your old bookmarks. 
As others have said, encrypting a web connection is not a guarantee of safety, but locking the door is at least an improvement over leaving it open (with all the qualifying statements that would go with that analogy ...).
As for stronger passwords: entropy is what you want. The more entropy in your password, the stronger it is. Here's an explanation or two:
https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.p...sword_Strength
https://www.itdojo.com/a-somewhat-br...sword-entropy/ |
That was an awesome link with the comic. Never would have thought that as we've always been told by the network security people to do the hard to remember stuff.
Thanks for posting.
Only issue now is they won't let me use a really good easy to remember password and I have to have letters, numbers,characters and have to press the keys whilst standing on my head. Lol.😏
Cheers,
Damien