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I used to do this. It fell apart fast. Some websites require special characters and numbers and upper and lower case letters. Others actually prohibit certain s
by function_seven 5y ago
I used to do this. It fell apart fast. Some websites require special characters and numbers and upper and lower case letters. Others actually prohibit certain special characters (weak SQL injection "prevention"). Some limit the length to 8 or 16 characters, others don't.
Then a random breach happens, and the website will force you to choose a new password.
I couldn't remember which variant of my rule I used at a particular website. This is aside from how easy my rule was to reverse engineer (which was made really clear to me once when I saw a couple of my PWs on haveibeenpwned
- cryptica 5y agoYou can have different variants so you try one and if that's not it then you try the backup/alternative. In my case, this was only a problem with a couple of websites which I rarely used. I just did a password reset every time I wanted to log into these websites.