Passwords That Survive a Breach
Length beats complexity, reuse is the real risk, and passkeys change the picture. A practical migration you can finish over three evenings.
The only rule that matters
Uniqueness beats complexity. An attacker with a leaked password does not try to guess it — they try it everywhere else, automatically, within hours.
Length beats symbols. Four unrelated words are easier to type, easier to remember and far harder to crack than a short string of punctuation.
A strong password on twelve sites is a weak password, because it only has to leak once.
A three-evening migration
Evening one: email, then your password manager, then your phone account. These three can reset almost everything else.
Evening two: banking, payment services and anywhere your card is stored.
Evening three: shopping, social and the long tail. Anything you no longer use, delete rather than secure.
Where passkeys fit
A passkey replaces the shared secret with a key pair, so there is nothing on the server worth stealing and nothing to type into a fake page. Where a site offers one, take it.
Until coverage is universal, a manager plus unique passwords plus app-based two-factor remains the realistic baseline.
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