When I started with Bitcoin, I was bright enough to use a random generator to create a username. But I now realize that isnt' enough, and I never expected to use it this long. By now I've also used it on other sites. I can't take that back without giving up everything I've done in the past 8 years, and being a Newbie again. So having a reputation doesn't go with having privacy.
I think this was one of the best sentences I've read about privacy!
Sometimes people focus a lot on privacy today, but forget what they did 10 years ago, which ends up destroying that supposed privacy.
I'm in a similar situation with you. Therefore, today I only take the measures that I think are necessary for privacy, for the level of privacy that I still manage to maintain. For the rest, I just have to be attentive and take the necessary care not to fall into schemes that could harm me.
As people tend to have dozens to hundreds of accounts, if you can memorize all of your passwords, they are either:
- Not distinct enough (i.e. not a fresh one per account)
- Not independent enough (e.g. you have a 'master password' with numbers at the end or something like that)
- Not random enough (e.g. you use real words)
I may disagree with some of the points mentioned, but I think the use of real words, depending on how they are used, is a bad model.
A machine finds random letters faster than real words. Logically it cannot be just a word or two. But, a sentence, with three or four words, can be very difficult to crack as a password.
In reality it all depends on how you build your password.
Random letters and numbers can be as easy to break as a few words together.
The suggestion I always give is to build passwords that you can memorize, but at the same time are complex.
"Waterwithsaltandsugar!1" it could be someone's password, which will be very difficult to be cracked.
Well... now it's not... it's better that no one uses it.
