«I also used to have
the same simple password for everything,» he says.
Not exact matches
It is
simple to use the
same password for all of your accounts, but this practice also helps hackers to easily access these
passwords.
Sure, it's much easier to use the
same password for everything, but this kind of laziness makes it quite
simple for someone to access all your accounts by knowing a single
password.
One of the great things about Linux is that you can do the
same thing hundreds of different ways — even something as
simple as generating a random
password can be accomplished with dozens of different commands.