MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoTIL that if you search "Password generator, [x] characters, [y] strength" at DuckDuckGo, it will generate a password for you.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square31linkfedilinkarrow-up1265arrow-down116
arrow-up1249arrow-down1imageTIL that if you search "Password generator, [x] characters, [y] strength" at DuckDuckGo, it will generate a password for you.lemmy.worldMeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square31linkfedilink
minus-squarechicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40arrow-down1·5 months agoThat’s fucked up, they should not do that. Even if they do it in a way that users are actually secure (maybe generating the password in the browser, nothing serverside?), it isn’t good to train people to trust a website for this.
![TIL that if you search "Password generator, [x] characters, [y] strength" at DuckDuckGo, it will generate a password for you.](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/31a5b1e1-4330-4a27-aa88-cc47a25acb05.jpeg){kind=link}
That’s fucked up, they should not do that. Even if they do it in a way that users are actually secure (maybe generating the password in the browser, nothing serverside?), it isn’t good to train people to trust a website for this.