Hackers recently got hold of details for 153 million Adobe accounts (including mine – thanks Adobe!), including user emails, password hints, and encrypted passwords. This means that, if you have a password hint that points obviously to your password, then you should check whether your details were leaked and change your password immediately.
Once you’ve done that, you should play Adobe Crossword. Inspired by this XKCD comic, it uses password hints and password lengths for the 1000 most popular passwords to generate crossword puzzles. They’re unexpectedly brilliant.
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