Of course few of us use email passwords to read our messages, except once in a blue moon. But that password is what keeps others from reading them and for instance stealing your Steam Account and all your Steam purchases. They just type your email on the steam login and check the box: "forgot my password". Then they read the email from Steam and use that to reset the password. And then they turn on 2 step verification, the other step being their phone number, not yours. At that point they're in and you're out. They can verify, you can't.

A similar problem caused me to have a 1 hour forced period off of Steam. Someone in our household changed the Steam password a few weeks ago.....grrrr. I never noticed because Steam client was set to boot up without it. So weeks later, today I logged off Steam and could not log back on, bad password.

I found out tonight in a Steam forum, there is a 'bug' in the steam client from 2016 on and never fixed that scrolls the mouse pointer on every Steam screen down to the bottom of the screen instantly and you can't scroll it back up. It only affects under 1% of all users. I got that bug right when converting to Windows 11 about 12 days ago. So there was no way for me to focus the mouse pointer into the create new password box. The cure of course was logging into steam from another computer which did not have that bug. Mouse pointer and scroll behaved. Changed password, didn't lose all my purchases.

Email passwords should be stronger than most. After all, you're not going to use them very often on your own computers.

OK, I see "password" and "Steam." What does this have to do with MSFS discussion?

Can't you pollute some other forum? Please!

Yes, it should have been posted in another forum.

Hello,

If you use Steam :
Without your steam password, you cannot use MSFS 2020 !

To be able to change a steam password, or any other passwords, knowing the user's email name is not enough : you must also know the email password to be able to reset the account.

I feel your pain, specially being responsible ( also ) for Cibersecurity at work 😕

It's a Nightmare, and at times only a few minutes at the end of a labour day fighting the attrocities users do to their security, reading the AVSIM forums or starting one of my 3 sims for a while can bring me back to "sanity"...

Imagine having to deal with 300+ users with mostly bad practices in terms of cibersecurity ...

5 hours ago, Twenty6 said:

OK, I see "password" and "Steam." What does this have to do with MSFS discussion?

Can't you pollute some other forum? Please!

maybe  some  of us  have  purchased  msfs  thru  steam

6 hours ago, Twenty6 said:

OK, I see "password" and "Steam." What does this have to do with MSFS discussion?

Can't you pollute some other forum? Please!

I can see Steam coming out of your ears...! 😜

Wow, someone is in a bad mood and touchy too.

Is "Passworord123" strong enough ? What do the experts say ?

7 minutes ago, darshonaut said:

Is "Passworord123" strong enough ? What do the experts say ?

Yeah, I think that extra 'o' in '...worord' really does it! 😎

I use two factor authentication on anything that has value to me.  That plus a strong email password.

The strongest and easiest to remember passwords are pass phrases from random song lyrics or verses from a poem bits of Shakespeare.  

Pass phrases like " when I was younger, so much younger than today " or " nobody expects the Spanish inquisition" are easy to type, easy to remember and, because of the length, more secure than nonsense passwords like  $7BTP@gtKek . Just do not use your absolute favourite quote that everyone knows you love.

Problem is many apps will not allow pass phrases like that.

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6 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Pass phrases like " when I was younger, so much younger than today "

"Help me if you can, they hacked my password". (Actually fits in the melody! 😜)

Que j'aime à faire apprendre un nombre utile aux sages.

(Que = 3
j=1
aime=4
à=1
faire=5
apprendre=9)
3.14159 -> Pi

Password with this phrase can be Qjaàfa3.14159->Pi

You could use something stonger :
“Que j’aime à faire apprendre un nombre utile aux sages ! Immortel Archimède, artiste, ingénieur, qui de ton jugement peut priser la valeur ? Pour moi ton problème eut de sérieux avantages !” 
Pi  you get is much more accurate  !
You will remember your password, but it will be quite long to type it !
And you want to fly Fs2020 as soon as possible.

Worst thing you can do is re-use the same password on different sites.

Best bet is a password manager, such as Lastpass (what I use). I currently have over 200 passwords, all of them different, and all of them random alpha-numeric-symbols of at least 16 characters (majority are 32 characters). I only have to remember one password, for the password manager, and it is a long phrase that means something to me and is easy to remember. Bonus with a password manager is that it can be set up to automatically fill in username/password on most sites.

For sensitive sites (banking, government, etc.) one should also enable two factor authentication (2FA) whenever possible.

...jim