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That's still an issue. humanly generated passwords tend to be predictable, repetitive and not very long.

A computer will always do a better job at generating\remembering passwords.

hardware 2FA is definitely a good idea.



They aren't human generated. I generate them programmatically and don't store them on silicon but on paper.


Secure paper is one of the best methods.

The issue is when you want to access that paper remotely or on the go. Then it becomes a really bad method.


>humanly generated passwords tend to be predictable, repetitive and not very long.

Not necessarily. See https://xkcd.com/936/




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