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• Password Generators — Your first line of defense

  Posted on March 10, 2025 at 02:43 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  If you create a password that is easy to remember, you create a password that can be cracked.

  These are no longer the days of P@ssw0rd123, Fido2002, or 22222. No joke — an entire county government in our area used that last one on both of their servers until we helped them out.

  You may think your password is fine because your account gets locked if a wrong password is tried too many times. Well, that used to be the case. If a hacker used a rainbow table that tried 2 million passwords and could try only one possible password every 15 minutes, that would have taken a very long time.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.10.0, 2025-03-10).

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• Freeware Spotlight — Alternate Password Generator

  Posted on November 1, 2020 at 20:00 CST by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  BEST UTILITIES

  By Deanna McElveen

  There’s never an occasion when a simple password is acceptable for an online account.

  The days of “[insert cat name]123” and “[insert kid name][insert birthdate]” are over — especially when applied to more than one online site. It’s likely that any short and easy-to-remember password you can think of has already been added to massive databases — some nefarious, some informational — of stolen credentials.

  OlderGeeks.com hosts several utilities from Alternate Tools, but today we’re looking at Alternate Password Generator (APG). It’s a free program that creates secure passwords.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.43.0 (2020-11-02).

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• Freeware Spotlight — Infinite Password Generator

  Posted on January 6, 2020 at 01:00 CST by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  BEST UTILITIES

  By Deanna McElveen

  If you’re looking for a password-keeper/-generator app, there are plenty offered for nearly any platform.

  It should be no surprise that my preference is a password manager that’s both simple and portable — such as Yuku Sugianto’s Infinite Password Generator (IPG, for short). It generates secure passwords for websites and applications by combining a single master keyword with keywords you provide for each site. It then stores your passwords on your computer in an encrypted file.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.1.0 (2020-01-06).

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