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"Chris Green" wrote in message
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John Rumm wrote:

I mean, another thing to look at is wifi password. Now if its too hard,
nobody can remember it, if its too simply people can guess it, and of
courrse many devices that use a cloud storage system actually store
it,
supposedly encrypted.


A decent password ought not be "memorable". If you need it, go look at
the written record of it (the plate on the back of the router if you
like), or use the WPS button for creating new connections.

Surely a decent password *has* to be memorable because otherwise you
have to have a written copy somewhere that someone else can find. A
password manager doesn't get over this issue because you have to have
a memorable password for the password manager.


But just the one in the case of the password manager and with a well
implemented system which only allows a few tries before locking out
the password entry, it doesnt have to be complicated so it can be
trivial to remember.