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WHETHER YOU store them in your browser, on post-it notes, or in your head, passwords are a necessary evil for protecting your online accounts. The trouble is that they don’t perform that job very well, and can prove to be more frustrating than reassuring.
We’ve all received alarming emails urging us to change our passwords immediately after they’ve been compromised in a data breach, locked out of accounts when we couldn’t remember the password, or had to conjure up convoluted logins containing upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and special characters.