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We have had a solution to this problem for decades: using the same God damned username and password for every website that needs them. This is what I do...exce
by sethg 18y ago
We have had a solution to this problem for decades: using the same God damned username and password for every website that needs them.
This is what I do...except that every once in a while, I try creating an account on a new site and discover that someone else has taken "sethg". Or the site has some rules about what characters are mandatory/forbidden in a password, and I can't use my default password. Or the site stores passwords in the clear and gets hacked, and I have to remember everywhere I used that default password and go change the password.
In the grand scheme of things this is only a minor irritation, but whenever I go to a site that I only expect to visit once every six months and discover that I have to create yet another site-specific account, I think, "I wish they supported OpenID."