WARNING - Hotmail Accounts Hacked

**Hachiman** · 25th June 12, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by Deirachel

So, for the TL; DR While I agree the purely random string password is the BEST password, it is an impractical solution for the average user as memorizing a random string is extremely difficult (causing the user to do one of the big no-nos - writing it down, or saving it on their computer somewhere.)

BTW, thanks for that link, that's helpful!

Deirachel, as I mentioned previously, I don't memorize my passwords. I use a cross-platform password manager to hide my randomly-generated 20 character passwords behind 256-bit encryption, and then cut-and-paste my username and passwords into the appropriate fields on any website that I use that requires authentication. I literally do not know my own email password. That's the job of my password manager.

As for the link: you're welcome!

cheers!
Hachiman

**seanachie** · 25th June 12, 10:03 PM

I have no incentive from nor any relationship with LastPass, but that is the password manager I use and can highly recommend it. There are user configurable options for the password strength and criteria and they have 2 Factor authentication which I definitely use. Because I am involved with IT and e-commerce professionally as well as personally maintaining track of passwords would be otherwise impossible.

**seanachie** · 25th June 12, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by Deirachel

Forward them to your G-mail address. That's the way with the lowest steps.

Actually Google has made it easier than that. They have a tool called Mail Fetcher, more detailed instructions can be found here: https://support.google.com/mail/bin/...n&answer=21288 I administer 2 Google Apps domains and while I had to use a different solution I can understand the hardship, one domain I migrated to Google had seven years worth of mail. There are also services like YippieMove that can do transfers for a fee, but man it can save you a lot of time and energy. http://www.yippiemove.com/