account ยท post 03 of 7 in this channel
Your WeTheNorth password has no reset link behind it
Every password you have ever chosen had a safety net under it. This one does not, and that changes what a good password even means.
the three wethenorth market addresses
hn2paw7zfvndw3dovycegeqmvvnf4pl67b3g2p7pohjlzavloosh73id.onionhn2paw7zrgujyhnt6mgxlt2q6uhgbke4itpqitxhyfbumq3wtnckbuyd.onionhn2paw7zadwkcra3qzv5e4q547i7e5lvxm62cfxqftuqdu7moiu2ceyd.onionprinted the way they were handed over. no labels, no numbering, nothing here says which one to try first. this feed never opens them, so it has no status light, no percentage and no date of checking to give you.
the missing machinery
A reset link works because a company holds an address for you, and can send something to it that proves you are you. Take the address away and the whole mechanism has nothing to stand on.
This is why registration did not ask for an email. Not an oversight, a consequence.
So the forgotten password flow you have used a hundred times is not merely inconvenient here. It does not exist.
what that does to the calculation
On the normal web, forgetting a password costs you three minutes. That is why people can afford to choose complicated ones and half remember them.
Here, forgetting costs you the account, unless you kept the recovery phrase, which is a separate string with its own post.
A password you might forget is not a strong password here. It is a slow way of losing something.
so what do you choose
Long rather than clever. Several unrelated ordinary words beat a short string with symbols wedged into it, because length is what actually resists guessing and words are what you can actually keep.
Unique to this account, absolutely and without exception. The post on reusing a password is about what happens when it is not.
And nothing derived from anything about you, for the same reasons the username post gives.
storing it
A password manager is the sensible answer for most people, with one caution: it lives on a machine, and the machine is a thing that can be looked at.
Paper works and does not sync anywhere, which is both its strength and its weakness. Paper also gets thrown away by other people.
What does not work is your memory alone, and what works even less is your memory plus the confidence that you will definitely remember.
changing it later
If a market offers a password change, using it occasionally is reasonable, and the risky moment is the change itself. Change it, then immediately confirm you can sign in with the new one before closing anything.
Do not change a password on a machine or a connection you are unsure about. That is the one time a small mistake locks you out permanently rather than temporarily.
And update wherever you stored it in the same minute, not later. A password manager holding the old value while the market holds the new one is a lockout waiting for the next time you sign out.
That failure is common and entirely self inflicted. It takes ten seconds to avoid and there is no way back from it.
replies
a reader askedI forgot my password. What are my options?
the answerThe recovery phrase, if you kept it. If you did not, there is nothing else, and no site including this one can do anything about it. That is harsh and it is the actual answer.
a reader askedIs a password manager safe to use for this?
the answerIt is a considerable improvement on reuse and on memory. It is also a single container holding everything, so it deserves a strong lock and some thought about where it syncs.
a reader askedShould I write the password down on paper?
the answerPaper is a real option here in a way it is not for most accounts. It cannot be reached over a network. It can be read by anyone in the room, so where you put it is the whole question.
what this post is not Not a password generator and not a rating tool. There is nothing on this page that checks a password, because this site has no forms and never will.