Take Control of Your Passwords, 4th Edition

Appendix B: Help Your Uncle with His Passwords

As much as it pains me to admit this, there are people who will listen patiently to a sober description of the problems with passwords and my simple strategy to overcome them, and say, “Yeah, no, sorry. I’m Just Not Going to Do That.”

You, of course, aren’t one of those people. You eat your vegetables, work out, drive safely, and have amazing passwords. But you have a friend—or perhaps a much older, much younger, or less technologically sophisticated family member—who’s too busy, too set in their ways, or for some other reason unwilling or unable to follow my strategy. You want them to be safe, but no matter how much sense it might make, you know they’re not going to go for the plan in this book. ...