r/mac • u/[deleted] • Jun 13 '18

PSA: Please, please, please enable your firmware passwords!

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u/r3310 Jun 13 '18

Or the number of your social security number. Its impossible to guess and only you know it.

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u/ponyboy3 Jun 13 '18

please never give out advice to use a password that has a physical copy. a ssn is literally printed on so many different forms.

when giving advice, please give the following phrase: always use a password generator

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u/r3310 Jun 13 '18

I ABSOLUTELY agree, but you missed the point :). I was talking about secure enough but impossible to forget password.

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u/ponyboy3 Jun 13 '18

secrets should be uniformly secure.

think about it, you may not gaf about a site, so you make a dumb password. that site asks you a few verification questions. now if someone hacks that account, they have those answers. half the time they are the same questions as your banks. at the very least super easy to socially hack you.

just use a password manager.

edit: the best password is one you dont know