Securing your own accounts and devices

A practical weekend checklist for your phone, laptop and logins.

10 min read · Lesson 5 of 6 · Pro

Start with your own life

You will not be trusted with a company's systems if your own laptop is a mess. This lesson is a checklist. Work through it once, properly, and most of it never needs doing again.

Passwords: length beats complexity

The old rule taught in schools — one capital, one digit, one symbol — produces Password@123, which is in every attacker's first thousand guesses. The modern rule is different.

Length is what matters. Four or five unrelated words make a passphrase that is long, easy to type and easy to remember: copper-lentil-window-42.

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