We’ve all been in the situation trying to set a new password – you need one uppercase character, one number and one character from a special list. Whatever password we come up with needs to be between 8 and 24 characters long. Once created, we need to remember that password and heaven help us should we need to reset it. Yes, that’s the dreaded “you can’t reuse the last five passwords” message – but IT security requires the password to be changed every month. If you’ve lived in the corporate world, this experience is quite familiar. So too is this a common experience with most web properties. Then along comes the dreaded “your account was part of a set of accounts which may have been breached” letter. As a consumer, you’re now left with some anxiety over what data might be in the hands of proverbial “bad guys”. Part of the anxiety comes from the prospect that these same bad guys might also now know your password, so you need to change it. If you’re like many people, that password lik...
