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defacto7

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11. Actually typing them is not safe either.
Wed Mar 25, 2020, 11:30 AM
Mar 2020

Keyboard strokes are easily monitored by malicious code. The safest way to go is to have a text file with the password saved in a protected directory. Copy and paste it to the password form, bring up a new text file and type nonsense to it then copy that to erase your copy buffer.

It's a hassle but that's what I do with important site access like the bank.

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