After imbibing large quantities of certain beverages, we Ars writers sometimes get carried away with telling each other true-life stories that probably shouldn't go anywhere but sometimes do. Last ...

Mnemonic passwords generally stink. A random sequence of letters, digits and punctuation is more secure—just don't write down your passwords, like the knucklehead antagonist does in Ready Player One!

A 2024 survey by NordPass found that the average consumer has to juggle 168 passwords. Only a savant could memorize that many different passwords, so people cut corners. Some use easy passwords like a ...

Mozilla is adding a random password generator to Firefox. Google added one to Chrome and Chromium-based browsers in the fall of 2018, with the release of Chrome/Chromium v69. The Firefox random ...

Thinking up a strong password when you need one right away is not always easy. Password Generator 2.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch simplifies the task of creating difficult-to-crack passwords for you ...

Being a simple and free password manager for Windows, RandPass Lite does what it says – create a password whenever needed. However, there are some other features that you should know about this ...