Missing post: Watchtower Score not increased by MFA, passkeys or better passwords
Some days before the forum migration, I posted Watchtower Score not increased by MFA, passkeys or better passwords which had some useful contributions from
While a post getting lost is no big deal, while the forum was offline I worked with several of the excellent support staff and we made some useful, interesting and material discoveries with the promise of more to come. Since no-one but they and I will ever see these, I said that I would update the thread.
For reference, the main part of my initial post was
Months ago my score for over five hundred (mostly Login) items was N. Since then I have
• replaced many tens of VERY GOOD passwords with EXCELLENT passwords,
• added tens of one-time passwords†,
• added around ten passkeys,
• archived around ten Login items with GOOD or VERY GOOD passwords and no one-time passwords or passkeys, and
• added around ten Login items with EXCELLENT passwords, one-time passwords, and passkeys.
There are now no Login items with Two-factor authentication† or Passkeys available, or any of the other drop-down categories.
My score is now... N - that is, unchanged.
According to How to improve your Watchtower score in 1Password, at the very least Enable 2FA is one of the changes which should have increased the score.
PS. Requiring tags and having the current fixed set of tags which exist without explanation is worse than harmless, since it undermines the utility of useful future tags.