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What are "reasonable security practices" for maintaining strong, unique passwords over several hundred sites?
by PhasmaFelis 10y ago
What are "reasonable security practices" for maintaining strong, unique passwords over several hundred sites?
- Gustomaximus 10y agoFor me I have a few standard passwords depending on type of security e.g forums which dont matter so much if people access vs email vs banking. On each I have change I make depending on the name of the business e.g. you could use the part of their business name to decide part of that password type thing. For someone like me who is less likely to be specifically targeted for hacking and more likely to lose account security to mass breaches like LinkedIn (twice now guys!), this seems a good way to limit chances of a broad account breaches while maintaining fairly easy to remember 100's of passwords. That said I completely acknowledge a sophisticated hacker would have no issues beating my method.
- ryuuchin 10y agoRandomly generate a password for every site. Store said passwords in a password manager protected with one master password which you remember (taking the number of passwords you would have to remember from hundreds (impossible) to one (very possible)). Even using the built-in password saving feature of your browser is fine for this if you can't be bothered to use anything else. Chrome even has an option to generate random passwords for you.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoThat's what I thought, but it's also exactly what LastPass and other password managers do, so I'm still unclear why kevin_thibedeau thinks password managers aren't " reasonable security practices."