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Comment by mbuinl989

6 years ago

Password Managers are the new goto for obtaining all passwords and web browser zero days make it very easy to lift and then use for a variety of purposes. A simple lined small note book is good, but made secure is best, yet how would you make a pwd note book secure from someone else? This even applies to devices like bank cards and other things which needs a security code of sorts.

Make the passwords one character longer than what is noted in the book? Only you know the character and where it is added.

For bank cards with fixed lengths, increment/decrement the nth character, swap two characters, or do a circular shift.

  • Or an arbitrary number of characters. If you know the additional six alphanumeric characters added, that's another 14 million combinations to test.

    Or 2FA, or ....