Editorial Policy

Flassword publishes practical guides on password security and related topics. Because that content can influence real security decisions, we hold it to a clear editorial standard — this page explains exactly what that standard is.

Editorial principles

Every guide on Flassword is written to be immediately useful, technically accurate, and free of unnecessary jargon. We favor practical explanations over scare tactics, and we'd rather leave a section short than pad it with filler. If a topic doesn't have a clear, defensible answer, we say so instead of guessing.

Accuracy

Technical claims — entropy calculations, cryptographic concepts, attack methods — are checked against their underlying math or against publicly documented standards before publication. Where we cite a figure or a statistic, we attribute it to its original source rather than presenting it as our own finding.

Human review

Every article is reviewed for accuracy and clarity before it's published, and reviewed again whenever the underlying guidance it's based on changes. Our interactive tools go through a separate, more technical review — see our How We Test page for exactly what that involves.

Trusted sources

Where possible, our articles draw on publicly available, authoritative guidance — bodies like NIST (the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology) and OWASP (the Open Web Application Security Project) — rather than second-hand summaries. When guidance from these sources is genuinely unsettled or actively debated, we say so rather than presenting one view as universal consensus.

Content updates

Security guidance shifts over time — password composition rules and rotation policies are a good example of advice that's changed meaningfully in the last decade. Every article displays a "last updated" date, and we revisit older content when the guidance it's based on changes materially, rather than leaving it to quietly go stale.

Corrections policy

If you spot an error — a factual mistake, an outdated claim, a broken link — we want to know. Corrections are made directly to the affected article, and the "last updated" date is refreshed to reflect the change. You can report an issue through our contact page; we read every message.

AI usage policy

We may use AI-assisted tools to help research and draft parts of our content and tools. Nothing goes live on that basis alone: every article is reviewed and fact-checked by our editorial process before publication, and every tool is tested against known, verifiable results — see how we test — before it ships. We'd rather be transparent about this than pretend otherwise.

Editorial independence

Flassword's tools are free to use and always will be. If the site carries advertising, ad placement is kept visually separate from editorial content, and no advertiser has any input into what we write, how we rank recommendations, or which security practices we describe as sound. Our Privacy Promise covers how this extends to how we handle your data.