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“You really need a unique password for every single site, because if one gets compromised, you can be in big trouble,” says Steve Benton, vice president of threat research at Anomali, a cyber threat intelligence and operationalization platform, and former chief security officer for U.K. While foolproof passkeys are (hopefully) going to replace passwords in the coming years, support for them is currently limited. Multiply that by the dozens of passwords we all have to pop into those empty boxes to get into our computer, email, bank account, streaming services…the list goes on and on.

Conventional wisdom (and some oft-cited research ) says that humans can keep only about seven numbers in their head at a time, which makes remembering a 14-character alphanumeric password nearly impossible.