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Synopsis: For high-risk accounts, use individual passwords.
Some accounts are so precious that misuse must be avoided in any case. Passwords aren't really the best way to do this, but if you are lacking any other mechanism, you have to come up with an as-secure-as-possible password.
Therefore, choose a complicated password that is used for exactly this one account and no other. A complicated password, at the time of writing this pattern, is probably an arbitrary combination of letters and digits of a minimum length like 8 characters.
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Contributors: Dirk Riehle
"Passwords aren't really the best way to do this..." What is? Why am I not doing it? (There are at least some interesting forces to explore here, if not a pointer off to another pattern...) -- EugeneWallingford
True. Maybe I should write: "precious account, but not precious enough to warrant stronger measures." -- DirkRiehle
I think that would blunt the questions that came to mind when I first read the pattern. What mechanism would I use for an account precious enough to warrant stronger measures? -- EugeneWallingford
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