If a site gets hacked, am I at any sort of advantage by having a complicated password, or does it not really matter at that point?
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So if you use a common password it’s easier for someone to hack your account for instance if your password is password instead of/8)4&/‘hsujs23 than it will be easier. They can use a rainbow table which takes less computing power and time than a brute force attack. But you are mostly right about using different passwords. Having a password manager can be useful. But password are not a great source of protection for the attack you are describing
The complicated password is so people don’t guess yours specifically.
If the site is hacked and password details leaked then your account is compromised regardless of how strong your password was.
You’re right about having different passwords.
If the website gets hacked and they can get the unencrypted passwords, it’s not really relevant how strong the password is. Strong passwords keep people out using the “manual” way of breaking into your account, aka guessing your password. This can either be a brute force type attack or certain people that for whatever reason want to break into your account specifically
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