Why every website needs its own password
Data breaches happen every day, even at large and well-known companies. When a site is hacked, lists of emails and passwords end up in the hands of attackers, who immediately try the same combinations on email services, social networks, online stores and banks. This attack is called credential stuffing, and it works for only one reason: people reuse passwords.
If every account has its own unique password, a leak on one site stays a problem of that one site. Your email, your money and your personal photos stay safe, because the stolen password simply doesn’t open anything else.
Strong doesn’t have to mean impossible to remember
Classic random passwords like x7#Qp!2zR are secure but hard to remember, so people write them on sticky notes or fall back to “qwerty123”. MySmartPassword takes a different approach: the letter parts of each password are built from syllables that follow the sound of a real language. You get something like Toraven47kelSo# — two made-up words joined by digits, with an uppercase letter and an optional special character.
Pronounceable passwords are easy on your memory and your fingers: after typing one by hand a few times, you will know it by heart. Yet each one is unique, unpredictable and generated with your browser’s cryptographically secure random number generator.
How to get the most out of it
- Use a new password for every site and service.
- Pick the phonetics of a language that sounds natural to you — the password becomes even easier to remember.
- Turn on special characters when a site requires them.
- Keep “Exclude similar characters” on, so you never confuse 0 with O or 1 with l.
- Keep important passwords in a password manager and enable two-factor authentication.
Passwords are created right on your device and are never sent or stored anywhere.
Bookmark MySmartPassword
You will need a fresh password the next time you sign up somewhere. Press Ctrl+D (⌘+D on a Mac) to add this page to your bookmarks, and a smart, unique password will always be one click away.