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How long have you done this, for how many sites, do you rotate passwords (when sites are breached, and/or on a schedule), and have you had to access sites in a
by osteele 8y ago
How long have you done this, for how many sites, do you rotate passwords (when sites are breached, and/or on a schedule), and have you had to access sites in a mentally compromised state (distracted, sleep-deprived, post-concussion)?
Every once in a while I hear someone explain their system for this (and I used to use a simpler scheme), and I can think of arguments about why it won't work for long, but I'd be happy to update my internal monolog from actual evidence.
I've got about 1K passwords in 1Password. I generally rotate them when they're 1-3 years old, depending on the threat model, cost of compromise, and on what I'm using password review to procrastinate.
- nl 8y agoMy question with these schemes is how do they deal with sites which have weird password requirements which don’t match the scheme. Typically they don’t remind you when you are logging in that *we made you use 8 character passwords but you can’t use some special characters” or whatever. So you have to have some way of remembering what crazy password rules they had 3 years ago when you registered...