Boötes wrote:
I like the one-time idea, but in the meantime, if you're worried that your password is weak, something like this will give you a decent alphanumeric string, so that you're safer from brute force/dictionary attacks. Although, it's probably an exploit somewhere else.
https://www.random.org/passwords/Brute force and dictionary attacks are easy to mitigate against. I would not worry about these as much as long as you have a long, complex password.
Here's some food for the 'old mind. You know all those emails and notifications that we're all used to seeing, regarding databases that are compromised, where hackers from xyz were able to get the records etc for millions of people? But companies say you have nothing to worry about because the data is encrypted and safe? The reality is -- your data is not safe.
There are warehouses in places like China, Russia, etc where the only objective us to get as much data dumps, they don't care about encryption or not because every single encryption algorithm that is used today is vulnerable -- it just takes time to crack it ith today's computing efforts -- but once quantum computing becomes an actual thing then all that data is cracked in sometimes minutes. Scary stuff.
Not to get off-topic (I apologize - this is a topic I hold dear), any option suggested here is better than not having any at all.