Most of us have seen the memorable “Last Week Tonight” interview with Edward Snowden that aired in spring, but here’s a clip you may have missed about the importance of making better passwords than the “embarrassingly bad” ones most of us have. Snowden explains that if your password isn’t strong, it can take a computer “less than a second” to figure out what it is. The whistleblower then offers some tips on how to create strong passwords, which, let’s face it, we can all use.

—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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