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>a memorable iCloud password Serious question: Once you have this, why bother with a password manager? Why not just keep a password spreadsheet in iCloud?

Sirened 4y ago
A password manager mitigates other threats that a spreadsheet in iCloud Drive does not, such as a program just directly reading it and ruining your life. And, anyways, password managers give you auto fill which is a significant quality of life improvement. A memorable password is not a bad password, if done right. I have a password for both my google account and Apple ID that's easy to type because when you're in device setup you can't auto fill and so random passwords are a huge pain
- nicknow 4y ago
  When I was doing IT ops for a company, we had a little program that generated 4 random common words and put a symbol between them (!.@#$%). Super easy to type and fairly easy to memorize, but according to every password checker also really hard to crack. "Broth.Dogs.Run.Blue" is 10x easier to remember than "$#kdSk$SWE223" but 1000x times more secure. Probably more so, because you are less likely to have to write it down to remember it.
Whitespace 4y ago
As joshstrange mentions above, iCloud password prompts don't support password managers, which is the main reason why I have a memorable one. Password managers are more useful to me than a spreadsheet in iCloud. I don't see why having a memorable iCloud password implies I should get rid of a password manager. Do you have a spreadsheet of passwords in a cloud account somewhere?
corrral 4y ago
Password managers plus biometric auth mean I almost never even need to copy-paste a password, let alone type one. I just hit "fill" and it fills it in. For most of the services I use these days, I've never typed or manually pasted the password, ever, not even once.

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>a memorable iCloud password Serious question: Once you have this, why bother with a password manager? Why not just keep a password spreadsheet in iCloud?

by wintermutestwin 4y ago

Sirened 4y ago
A password manager mitigates other threats that a spreadsheet in iCloud Drive does not, such as a program just directly reading it and ruining your life. And, anyways, password managers give you auto fill which is a significant quality of life improvement. A memorable password is not a bad password, if done right. I have a password for both my google account and Apple ID that's easy to type because when you're in device setup you can't auto fill and so random passwords are a huge pain
- nicknow 4y ago
  When I was doing IT ops for a company, we had a little program that generated 4 random common words and put a symbol between them (!.@#$%). Super easy to type and fairly easy to memorize, but according to every password checker also really hard to crack. "Broth.Dogs.Run.Blue" is 10x easier to remember than "$#kdSk$SWE223" but 1000x times more secure. Probably more so, because you are less likely to have to write it down to remember it.
Whitespace 4y ago
As joshstrange mentions above, iCloud password prompts don't support password managers, which is the main reason why I have a memorable one. Password managers are more useful to me than a spreadsheet in iCloud. I don't see why having a memorable iCloud password implies I should get rid of a password manager. Do you have a spreadsheet of passwords in a cloud account somewhere?
corrral 4y ago
Password managers plus biometric auth mean I almost never even need to copy-paste a password, let alone type one. I just hit "fill" and it fills it in. For most of the services I use these days, I've never typed or manually pasted the password, ever, not even once.