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>The other odd point is that we shouldn't be advocating stronger methods of choosing passwords because we should be using multifactor authentication. I don't dispute that we should be using multifactor authentication in more places, but even in that case weak passwords are a problem!

Only he never says that weak passwords are OK. Instead he says that we should not let people decide them, and instead use a uniformly random distribution of passwords (i.e. generated automatically).



That is precisely what "correct horse battery staple" suggests, over an alphabet that is more memorable per bit of entropy.




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