With the help of a password strength checker, you can learn the possible length of time it might take a cybercriminal to crack the password, from a few seconds to beyond a thousand trillion years.
Remember
Only enter passwords that are similar to the ones you use. Do not enter actual passwords into the checker.What does it mean to crack a password?
According to Techopedia, password cracking is “usually accomplished by recovering passwords from data stored in, or transported from, a computer system. Password cracking is done by either repeatedly guessing the password, usually through a computer algorithm in which the computer tries numerous combinations until the password is successfully discovered.”
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