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Watchtower - Overall Password Strength - TERRIBLE - But which are they????
In Watchtower, the Overall Password Strength tells me I have 33 "TERRIBLE" but which are they? I would expect the 33 Terrible to be clickable but they are not. So I'm blundering on in the dark.
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All the watchtower categories have completely different criteria. They are not just severities of the same category (terrible/weak password quality). Actually they have completely different criteria.
Weak passwords are too simple or too short passwords.
Unsecure websites are not logins with bad/weak passwords, but logins where the website starts with http:// instead of https://, so data transferred to these websites can be sniffed by 3rd parties.
Vulnerable passwords are not a special kind of weak passwords, but instead are publicly exposed passwords (collected in the "have I been pwned" database, which 1Password uses for this check), so they can be cracked by hackers by simply trying every publicly exposed password. Not only simple passwords are listed in that database - also very complex ones.
