(OT) Google: "Somebody knows your password"

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 21:29:55 +0200, Xen wrote:
>Because of the enforcement of strong passwords, that not only I hate, 
>most of my time logging into older websites is now spent on activating
>a recovery email message to change my password.

Instructions of how many letters you have to use and what chars you have
to use are a PITA and are only helpful for inexperienced people.
Now that more and more people are digital natives, less people should
be too inexperienced. However, actually hackers tend to crack databases
of the companies and not individual user accounts. IOW you could chose
the strongest password ever, seemingly hackers get everything they
want, unencrypted from the companies servers. Each time a big company
was hacked, the users need to chose stronger passwords and secondarily
they are ask to provide more data. It's more secure if you additionally
provide a telephone number and another email address, stored on the
companies server ;).