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AI Passwords ​Depending on what you do, AI can do a lot for your individual productivity. Given how effective some AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini are at certain business tasks, like drafting emails, improving grammar, synthesizing information, or even writing or correcting code. But recent research shows us one thing you shouldn’t use AI for: creating passwords. A clearer understanding of how these systems work can show you why. Here’s what you need to know. Why People Use AI for Password Creation We’ve warned for more than a decade that using simple passwords is dangerous, and reusing them is even worse. Passwords that use your birthday, common patterns like 2468, or even the word “password” itself (yes, this really still happens) are easy to guess. When you reuse those easy passwords across multiple accounts, all it takes is one right guess and the bad guys could gain access to all sorts of information. People hear that passwords need to be long, complex, and unique, but we humans ...

Password Security We humans have some pretty bad habits around security, don’t we? Take a minute and think about where you live: are you sure — absolutely sure — that every window to your home is locked? And speaking of locks at home: sure, your average home door lock is enough to keep out a random stranger. But if someone really wants to break into your home, that lock probably isn’t going to stop them. Broaden the scope a little and think of stores, ballparks, even airports: our typical conventional security methods are effective to a degree, but they aren’t foolproof. And in many cases, if someone’s motivated enough, they can find a way to circumvent those systems (at least for a while). Unfortunately, our tendency toward bad security habits extends to the digital realm. In general, people are really, really bad about passwords — and that’s a big problem. Why Password Security Is Worth Talking About Passwords matter because stealing, guessing, or otherwise compromising passwords is ...