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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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