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> When you ask people to remember too many passwords, they start writing them down and/or forgetting them, which leads to other problems. Writing passwords dow
by chimeracoder 5y ago
> When you ask people to remember too many passwords, they start writing them down and/or forgetting them, which leads to other problems.
Writing passwords down isn't the worst thing. If you can't convince someone to use a password manager like 1Password, getting them to use a physical notebook of unique and strong passwords is actually the next best thing, because (combined with 2FA) it protects them against the most relevant threat models for most people (phishing and password stuffing).
- falcolas 5y agoA business card stored in a wallet or purse is pretty good too. After all, we're already pretty used to protecting our credit cards, identity cards, and cash.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoIt's pretty bad to put both a debit card and it's password together. The only reason it's even tolerable risk to walk around out in the wide random world with a debit or credit card on your person all day every day, is because somewhere else you have the means to disable it and declare it lost. This is like storing the keys to your car conveniently right on your car.
- sj4nz 5y agoIf anything it should be the "red herring" password that locks the account if retried too many times.
- falcolas 5y agoThat's an important corner case I overlooked. I still think it's easily solved using the same principles: there are places in our houses where we regularly store sensitive items in already as well, such as a filing cabinet, or key safe, or next to that emergency $100 in a book.
- kube-system 5y ago> Writing passwords down isn't the worst thing. At home maybe, but in other environments this can be pretty bad.