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At what point did password managers invent the idea of using a different password for each account? That is computing basics from the beginning. They didn't sol

• mariusor 3y ago
  > if the master password get compromised. ... and if a copy of the password wallet has been obtained.
• UncleMeat 3y ago
  Password managers did not invent this idea, but we can observe people consistently reusing passwords when they don't have a password manager. It is just undeniable at this point that users cannot be expected to consistently create strong and unique passwords for each service.
• tzs 3y ago
  > At what point did password managers invent the idea of using a different password for each account? They didn't invent the idea. They just made it useable for people who have a lot of different accounts. I've got nearly 500 accounts, and based on a comment thread a while back where someone asked here how many accounts people have in their password managers I'm on the low side.
• misnome 3y ago
  No, the lottery prize is exactly the same: Access to every site in the list. The lottery chances have, however, dramatically changed, from no longer relying on the ongoing security practices of every single website you have ever signed into once being eternally a risk to breaching every single other website you have ever signed into. Perhaps you alone can remember a cryptographically secure password for every website. But I’d more suspect your downvotes come from the impression you give of apparent inexperience combined with what looks like a child-like propensity to bluster.