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It’s #PasswordDay (you didn’t forget, did you?). Shelter-in-place means people everywhere are signing up for dozens of new apps and sites, and that means dozens of new passwords, so I wanted to bust some myths and share some knowledge on how to use passwords safely. 1/
Passwords are the best and the worst of things. They’ve worked from time immemorial. Centuries before computers, passwords were used by Roman armies to identify allies and prove loyalties. 2/ 
The first computer passwords were from the 60s at MIT to protect researchers on shared systems. Back then, computers were the size of minivans, people had access to at most one of them, and the threat model was an officemate who wanted to play text adventure games 3/
